week 3: Ron Smith Interview Interactive Q&As

1. Where does Ron Smith work?

2. What is the focus of the New Media Academy?

3. What kind(s) of media do the students enjoy the most?

4. Name 3 things Ron Smith does to engage his students?

5. When Mr. Smith says his class is a laboratory, what does he mean?

6. What is Mr. Smith's criticism concerning teachers and their use of technology in their classes?

7. What reason does Ron Smith give for teachers lack of use of technology in the classroom?

8. What are 3 suggestions for open source applications that teachers should be using in their classroom to engage their students?

9. When Mr. Smith uses the aforementioned applications in his classroom, what instructions does he give the students?

10. What does Smith say the challenge is for educators to incorporate technology in their classrooms?

Answers:

1. New Media Academy @ Hollywood High School in Hollywood, CA.

2. Career/media-related career

3. Animation /flash/video

4. movies, videos, sound, websites (only 3 are needed for answer)

5. He tries our new media i.e. podcasts/text messages

6. Teachers think they are good at technology because they can create a PowerPoint presentation.

7. Too much preparation needed to incorporate technology into existing curriculum/lessons

8. Scratch, Sketch-up, Blender

9. Here's is this button, there is that button, now do it - figure it out.

10. To take the current material and adapt the lessons/activities to web design experiences and create rich experiences for students.

Full Sail University. (2009). Media asset creation presents Ron Smith [video]. Retrieved August 13, 2009, from http://online.fullsail.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=assignment.main&itemId=66954

Hollywood High School. (2009). Home page banner [screen shot]. Retrieved August 14, 2009,from http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net/?rn=19551

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