This week I began my placement on the Creative Media course at Gower College Swansea.
This course is full of technology as you would expect, Macs, cameras, lights etc. But I have seen a lot of ways tech is being used to teach as well as being the things students are learning about.
Remote Desktop 
This is a really awesome teaching tool if your teaching a subject like mine, showing 30 students how to use Photoshop is pretty impossible without some sort of screen. But this app lets you take control over the students Mac's, so whatever you do on your screen will be shown on theirs.1. This makes it easier for the students to see what your doing
2. It stops the students from being distracted and watching cat videos on Youtube.
This program also allows you to keep an eye on what the students are doing on their Mac.
What I found on the particular course is that they don't use interactive boards. They have a normal white board and flat Screen TVs in every classroom. The TV's are hooked up to the master Mac, so they can display whats happening on the lecturers screen, show websites, Youtube videos and power points I guess. I haven't used the flat screens yet so I don't really know the advantages / disadvantages, but I thought it was interesting.
sounds like your having an interesting time there. It is fascinating to hear where the pockets of highly developed IT are and other places where it has not arrived yet, thus leaving many learners behind, for the time they are in college. Continued good luck . L
ReplyDeleteIt does sound great, I bet you are in your element. I would be interested t read your thoughts on the TV v Interactive whiteboard at some later date.
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