BLOG POST 4

Insightfully evaluated a key learning moment from your project work as it informs teaching & learning.  

A key learning moment from the project work was my experience with using the SMARTBOARD software. As I progressed on through my project and embedded more pictures and flv files, the software tends to crash continuously, which makes accomplishing the simplest of task challenging. I realized that the software might not be able to take in too many files, particularly those that are large such as HD quality videos. It slows down the rate of when the images, words and animations would appear.

 In a classroom situation, I could lower the quality of the videos when using the software and not upload images that take up too much memory. If necessary, I would insert a hyperlink in the SMARTBOARD slides that will redirect students to ‘youtube.com’ or other websites. In doing so, the quality of the videos to be shown in class will not be compromised and students can benefit with a much better visual and sound aid. The same solution applies to the images. Alternatively, images can also be reformatted in size or edited to take up lesser memory and prevent unnecessary and inconvenient crashes with the software.