In June 2012, Wayne and I decided to take a month long trip to Italy and Spain. The blue pins show the places we visited in Italy. We started in Rome, took the train up to Pisa, headed on to Florence, rented a car to visit the Tuscan towns like Siena and more, headed to relax in hidden beauty of the Cinque Terre, and then, to the romantic town of Venice, the only of it's kind. The route taken is shown by the purple line in the map below.
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ITALY 2012, a set on Flickr.
These photos give a quick snippet to my travels in Italy.
Our 21st century way of learning is multimodal. This paper on the Global Imperative tells us more about multimodal literacy. It transforms the way we learn into a more pleasurable one. With the use of images and handy web applications, I can teach my students a bit about the world and geography through the above digital images. Learning then becomes interactive, and each clickable link creates more opportunity for learning and experiementation. It allows them to connect to their world outside school, and the media (in this case my personal photographs) evokes an emotional response.
As the multimedia learning principle tells us, ones retention increases with the use of words and pictures, the use of images in technology helps us acquire knowledge with the use of the 3 different memories in our brain. Sensory, working and long term memory.
I like to use the above pictures to teach, using a see - think - wonder routine for the purpose of teaching with images. The students could then write a digital story by rearranging or choosing the images they like to learn more about Italy, it's geography and culture.
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