This Is How We Dream

My assignment this week is to watch and interrupt the video, This Is How We Dream. I had a hard time listening to the video, the guys voice drove me crazy. I did not find the video very interesting, but I do understand that technology is the future and we need to be prepared to write with media. The old school way of learning, pencil to paper, is out the door. We need to know how to incorporate media tools into our learning. This is going to be extremely important for students to have the knowledge of media tools and apply them into their work.

In the video the Richard Miller discusses some of the incremental changes of media. Work space is now defined as the desktop. We can research any topic anywhere. Long gone are the days of pencil paper writing or even using libraries. Our society has advanced from pencil to paper to laptops. Mr. Miller discusses how he wrote an article regarding the Virgina Tech killings. He wrote this article without stepping foot into a library. He used the web and his on thoughts to research the topic. He discussed how this article can be found both in print and a web based document.

Mr. Miller discusses how we need to compose with text, images, and film. We need to collaborate different techniques into our work and use visual and audio sound into are documents. Richard Miller elaborates on a project he did about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He composed his information from research on the web and information around campus that he collected. His use of different media tools made his presentation more visible. I believe that Mr.Miller wants everyone to expand their ideas into society, we need to be producers of multimedia. It is a must that we know how to write with multimedia. I am personally still learning to write with multimedia. All this new technology is new to me, but as a teacher I am willing to continue to learn. I feel that students in todays society are going to have to be able to write with multimedia if they want to succeed in the future.