Baylin's Digital Pedagogies Blog

As a future educator, it is vital that I am capable of catering the learning material to all forms of learners. The use of presentations in the classroom are a great way to ensure that all students are being accommodated for. Google Slides is the most recent presentations platform that I have interacted with. Google Slides is a power point creation platform that allows one to insert images, text, gifs and videos into a presentation. Presentations allow an educator to engage their students while providing learning material integrated into a variety of forms that Google Slides caters for. I have had very little experience with Google Slides despite its popularity. I have interacted with Google Slides once or twice during my time in high school, but predominately opted for Microsoft Power Point due to more experience with that particular platform. I found Google Slides extremely easy to navigate, I particularly found the customise-able templates for the slides very useful, these are extre...

  During my time as a student, I witnessed the beginning of the evolution of the contemporary classroom. My teacher would incorporate images videos and diagrams into presentations to engage the ever evolving. This digit media that is utilised by teachers is constantly improving the learning outcomes in our classrooms today. For example, in classrooms in 2023 we see; video clips, social media posts, news articles and even virtual reality set ups. This blog will narrow down to video clips, in particular, Youtube.  Youtube is an online platform where people from across the globe can post and share videos with each other to their own privacy digression. The platform also allows users to post lice streams, like, comment and share others videos. Youtube is very diverse, if you can think of a topic or a tutorial I am almost certain that theres a video for it. On top of that, Youtube is extremely user friendly with additions such as age restriction and parent controls. Youtu...