Digital Mosaic Listening Game (B Posting)

Technology is becoming more and more important in teaching and learning. It is improving the everyday classroom and allowing students to expand their abilities beyond the classroom. In one of the most recent projects in class, we had to create a listening game. The listening game was based on a story from our life. Prior to creating the game, a storyboard needed to be written and included nine pictures for each of the nine sections to the story. In developing the actual game, a table of nine squares was made. The nine different pictures were placed randomly throughout the squares and audio was added to each picture reflecting the storyline. The game was almost like a puzzle where the listener had to put the pieces of the story together by listening to the different audios of the pictures. It was a rather interesting and fun project.

At first, I found this project to be a little overwhelming. I am not very good with technology as it is, so listening to my professor tell me we have to resize images and add audio files and do this and that, it was a lot to handle. However, I found myself getting by easier than I thought I would. I learned quite a bit from this project. I never knew that something as creative as this could be created in a Word document. I always used Word for papers and that's pretty much it. I also learned how to resize images and how to add audio files into Word (another feature that never struck my attention). The biggest challenges of this project was probably resizing the images. I had a difficult time at first and thought about giving up on trying, but I rarely give up on things and I'm glad I didn't. I finally figured out what I was doing and made it through. In the end, I found this project to have helped me learn that I can really achieve something if I put my mind to it. It may not seem like a difficult project if you are a technology genuis, but I'm not. Overcoming the challenge of resizing images and putting this project together has helped me to learn that I enjoy challenges every now and then because nothing in the world is ever easy. I think projects like these are fantastic for teaching. They can be used in multiple ways and can really help students to learn. It has helped me learn, so I'm sure it would do a great deal for others as well. I intend to keep this project in mind for the future.