Remix-T, from the University of Notre Dame, helps college teachers develop engaging activities that incorporate images, video, and sound. The site includes a project gallery, a tool collection, information about media resources, and media design. Three main sections on the website menu feature the processes involved in creating cultivating media-rich learning activities--Explore, Build, and Learn. Each of these sections provides resources such as tools, tips and tricks, articles, methods, and some inspiration for educators. This site is from the University of Notre Dame.
Type of Material:
Development tool
Recommended Uses:
The uses for this site can be as varied as the instructor and his or her area of expertise. Some examples for using this site include developing concepts maps, digital storytelling, a how-to video, a book trailer, a timeline, a visual scavenger hunt, an interactive poster, an audio narrative, a speed presentation, a book trailer, a radio drama, a public service announcement or an infographic.
Technical Requirements:
This site uses Twitter Bootstrap, a free collection of tools for creating responsive websites and applications based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Pages are optimized for a desktop or tablet and do not display well on a phone.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The goal of this site is to help college instructors develop and cultivate media rich learning experiences for their students by incorporating images, video, and sound into their instruction and assignments.
Target Student Population:
Mainly aimed at teachers from high school through university, but can be used by advanced students to construct multimedia projects.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Internet access; artistic ability is desirable, but there are many examples to help users.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
Although designed to support faculty at Notre Dame, Remix-T offers a wealth of time-saving information and resources for all higher education faculty. The site is a huge collection of resources with explanations of how to approach multimedia development. This site has collected the key multimedia online tools and made links to them to save educators time and make multimedia course content development more efficient. Supporting resources, articles, and tips are also provided at this site. The site clearly provides links to significant concepts, approaches and skills that users can apply as they develop their own work/multimedia for their specific courses.
Concerns:
None.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
Remix-T has organized information and tools under three main headings--Explore, Build, and Learn. Under Explore users will find supporting resources organized under requirements, skills and time, video, sound, image, and design. For the Build section information links are set up for goals, rubric, and deliverables. Under the Learn section the links and resources are organized around pilot, evaluate, literacy, and pedagogy. There is also a tab for Tools that opens to the icons/links addressing 28 multimedia tools such as Flickr, YouTbe, Wordle, Pixton, Keynote, PhotoShop, iMovie, Audacity, Garageband, Pinterest, Glogster, Prezi, and more.
The Projects tab provides 25 multimedia examples that have been created and used in courses. These may spur the user to create his or her own project. The teaching-learning goals of the multimedia project development are clearly presented. Users will have to determine their own specific assignments and use the information presented to help them create and align their own work.
Concerns:
None.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
Remix-T has a clean layout and is easy to navigate. Tabs are clearly labeled. Users can search the entire site with the search button found on the top right of each page within the site. Besides Guide, Projects, Tools, Explore, Build and Learn tabs, there is a Guide: How to Use this Site. The Guide provides a written explanation as well as 2:42 minute video clip about using the site. The Gallery of Projects offers many strong ideas/examples for educators to try and develop their own versions for their own courses. The site is licensed through Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Concerns:
None.
Creative Commons:
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