Kecia Griffin

References McDermott, P., & Gormley, K. A. (2016). Teachers' Use of Technology in Elementary Reading Lessons. Reading Psychology, 37(1), 121-146. Student Engagement with multimedia has come a long way from the 70s when most of our multimedia consisted of print, newspapers, magazines, books microfiche. As a society we also dabbled in a few more items such as  flimstrips, flimprojection, televison movies and videos.     Today there is a vast array of multimedia that students are using.  They also can get the information with quickness and ease which is much different than the 70’s. The forms of media being used today are vast in comparison to that of 40 years ago.  Today's students are using technology to produce items such as podcast, blogs, presentations using web based programs and numerous apps that help them learn and grow. The student engagement that students have is so vast and changing daily. ...

References Martin, F., & Carr, M. L. (2015). An Exploratory Study on K-12 Teachers' Use of Technology and Multimedia in the Classroom.  Journal Of Educational Technology ,  12 (1), 7-14. Multimedia use in the classroom.   Before reading the article An exploratory study on K-12 teachers the use of technology in multimedia in the classroom , I thought multimedia was everything teachers are using in classroom; the computers, the software everything we're using in the classroom. I quickly learned that they are broken down into two different categories. Technology is the hardware such as desktop computers laptops notebooks Smart Boards mimeos clickers iPods tablets Etc. Multimedia is everything that you do with the hardware such as PowerPoints, YouTube ,Prezi, Google Docs, flipgrid etc.        It used to be that we would go to the library media Specialist or Librarian to check out our equipment to use in the cla...