Using Film to Teach: Blog 9

As a future Secondary English Education teacher, my goals are:
-to make English a fun and meaningful experience
-teach students how to confidently put their thoughts on paper in an artistic form.
-to use film perspective to teach story writing in the classroom.
I think that showing students how to organize thoughts and show emotion without mundane telling you need to visualize it. This is why I hope to teach students about perspective, imagery, mood, tone, etc. through media. I plan on integrating technology a lot within my lectures, group projects, and field trips.

In order to achieve the goals listed above I will need to incorporate using media related topics into the English department. I will use the following site in order to inform the education board about my ideas and give them a layout of how it is relative and important to the subject matter http://www.tii.se/reform/inthemaking/files/p106.pdf. Along with a proposal written by me and this site on media productions I will need to inform them of the media tools I will be using in the classroom. The man tool would be ivideo. All of the related software I would need to create a relative lecture through media would be available through Apple software. Other editing tools might also be required.

I think that technology has come a long way in the classroom but I think there is still more we can do. The culture of today relates and responds greatly to visual instruction and information. If all teachers could come up with a software that is both an editing tool and a recording tool for lectures classes would be much more interesting. In the future I will definitely be researching tools that allow for video in the classroom.