Bull, Alexander, Fester, G. C. B.(2010). Finding student who learn with media. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(5), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=February_No_5_4&Template=/MembersOnly.cfm&NavMenuID=4495&ContentID=25255&DirectListComboInd=D
Student-created media offers significant opportunities for engagement and learning through incorporating Web-based authoring tools into the curriculum. Primary Access Movie Maker allows students to combine their own text, primary source images and audio narration to create short online documentary films linked to the social studies standards. Students embed facts and events in a narrative context that can enhance the learning and understanding of historical materials. This program allows students to create their own movies in a virtual online exhibit called Picturing the 1930s. Teachers and students can explore this era through paintings, artist memorabilia, historical documents, newsreels, period photographs, music, and video. Primary Access Storyboard allows students to create a visual historical narrative in a single class period. Storyboard allows teachers to provide students with access to online primary source documents that aligns with the curriculum.
Student-created media offers significant opportunities for engagement and learning through incorporating Web-based authoring tools into the curriculum. Primary Access Movie Maker allows students to combine their own text, primary source images and audio narration to create short online documentary films linked to the social studies standards. Students embed facts and events in a narrative context that can enhance the learning and understanding of historical materials. This program allows students to create their own movies in a virtual online exhibit called Picturing the 1930s. Teachers and students can explore this era through paintings, artist memorabilia, historical documents, newsreels, period photographs, music, and video. Primary Access Storyboard allows students to create a visual historical narrative in a single class period. Storyboard allows teachers to provide students with access to online primary source documents that aligns with the curriculum.
Primary Access was interested in whether students who authored media were also more engaged. Teachers can monitor and analyze student’s actions throughout a class period. Primary Access created a Web-based word processor to track the actions of students writing traditional essays. Many students experience disengagement in Primary Access right away. With careful planning, it is possible to increase student engagement by incorporating student-authored media into a formal classroom setting without increasing amount of class time required to complete projects. Students who were engaged by both content and media demonstrated greater higher-order thinking and creativity in their work. In the future, the ability to analyze student activity through online tools may provide teachers with feedback about students’ time management and use of media, facilitating differentiation of instruction, and enhancement for learning.
Would I use Primary Access in my classroom?
Personally I probably would not use this program in my classroom because I hope to probably be teaching a younger grade level. This project and software seem extremely complex and with that young of an age, I don’t think it’s possible to teach children about this program due to their knowledge of computers and maturity level. Now if I was to teach 5th grade or above, then I would consider using this program.
How do you go about getting the training to use Primary Access in the classroom?
I’m not quite sure on this one. I would guess that probably on Primaryaccess.com they would have instructions but the question is, do you have to pay for the program. In this article it stated that Primary Access was a useful tool if you could engage the students in what you were trying to teach them but the article did not state how much the program costs. I’m sure it would take a lot of practice and research to come up with how to use this software effective and efficiently in a classroom.
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