Emerging+Trends+Instruction+Application

 Emerging Trends In Instructional Applications

Emerging Trends in Technology refers to new technologies that are being developed. These technologies will be used for future educational purposes and affect education globally. Our first major assignment was to select an emerging trend from a given list on PBWiki website, or choose another that we felt was an emerging technology. We needed to research information about this emerging trend and develop an Emerging Trend Instructional Project using Voicethread. This project was geared toward our understanding of the Emerging Trend or Web 2.0 technology and how it effects the educational process.
 * Description**

From discussion in our current course of instruction, I decided to research ** Blackboard. **


 * Process**

The process of creating our project and using Voicethread was to research as much about the emerging treand as possible. I chose to use Blackboard because it is something we use in our classes at college on a daily basis and thought that I may be able to find some easier uses for this emerging treand to ease through the classes with less stress. I could not find a lot of information on Blackboard and how to use the application, but chose to use the application on my own and research how to navigate through the site and what uses would most help or assist anyone using this application. I created a Powerpoint presentation using information abount when Blackboard was founded and somw screen shots of typical pages found while using Blackboard and gave a description of how to navigate these pages while looking for specific information. Once the Powerpoint was created, there was a need to log into Voicethread and upload the Powerpoint. Once the Powerpoint was uploaded, you could add voice enhancements, narration, and show information utilizing a pen to highlight the information you wanted the viewer to see. Once the assignment was completed, a link was added to the PBwiki webpage so all classmates can view and comment on the project. []

This seemed to be a time consuming project for me. Not that it was that difficult to complete, but it just came a t a bad time when there were lots of other assignments and due dates for projects at work that coincided with course work. After I got in tune to what I was doing with VoiceThread, it was relatively easy and I look forword to possibly making links like this for my own classroom content. It appears that it just takes a little time a quiteness to yourself to sort through what you are trying to place on your Voice thread and it will all cometogether in the end. it is better if you have a sound idea of where you want to end up at when you are finished with the project, but after a few tries it didn't seem as though it was as hard as I made it out to be.
 * Reflection**