This week for ADED 1P32 we had to learn how to use a slideshow tool to increase our digital literacy. I chose to explore the tool Animoto in order to create my slideshow about copyrights. Animoto had a lot of different styles that you could choose from and I really liked this about Animoto because it allowed me to choose a style that really suited the topic of my presentation. Once I began to create my slideshow I found it easy to add my pictures and choose music for my slideshow. However, when I started to add text to my presentation I found that Animoto did not provide me with a lot of space to explain my pictures and to source them correctly. As a result, Animoto made it hard for me to be a good digital citizen, which was the whole purpose of my slideshow!! I also did not like how hard it was for me to try and share my video once it was done. I believe that many of the poor aspects of Animoto may be improved with the full version because I only got to try the trial version. I must say that Animoto wasn't one of my favourite tools that I have discovered through the class, and I would not add it to my PLE.
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Creating a slideshow about copyrights really helped me learn about copyrights though. Learning how to use the advanced search on Google Images will really assist me in the future when I want to specify my search for material that I can edit or even just search for a certain image size etcetera. It also made me think about how easy it is to infringe on copyright rights without even noticing. With the amount of work we do using the Internet and making presentations with pictures and so on the normal student will copy and paste pictures from the Internet into their work within seconds and not think twice. However, this week I realized that anytime that I use a picture that is not mine I need to source it very clearly under the picture. This may not seem ideal or easy, but it is what is expected from a good digital citizen.
To reinforce the importance of digital literacy, this week from my Feedly I read an article on digital strategies used for the 2016 presidential campaign:
Digital Strategies Fuel 2016 Campaign Launch Decisions
It was an interesting article that highlighted how influential and useful digital tools, just like the ones we learn about in class, can be! Sometimes it feels like the skills you learn in school can't be applied to the real world, but this article goes to show that the digital literacy we acquire in ADED 1P32 can actually be dry useful in a very professional setting.
Until next week,
Jesse
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