MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY TOOL: MY SIMPLESHOW

MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY TOOL: MY SIMPLESHOW

            My Simpleshow is an example of a video tool, https://www.mysimpleshow.com/. Common Sense Media reviewed this educational tool for students from third through twelfth grades and can be used by both teachers and students to create video presentations (Common Sense Education, n.d.). The videos are simple to create if one starts with a PowerPoint presentation. This week’s video was created using the My Simpleshow’s website. The site is free to educators that register with their school email and school website. It did not take too long to learn how to use the site and there are many features to still explore in future videos.

            When students create videos to demonstrate their learning, it meets the ISTE-Student Standard (6) Creative Communicator because students create original works (International Society for Technology in Education. 2016). Students can use videos to create digital stories, to present a project, or even to explain ideas such as digital citizenship. Video can demonstrate learning more clearly than a traditional assessment and each student creates their own artifact. Using video allows people, like myself, to make their presentation without having to use their own voice and the pacing is controlled by how the script is formatted. My Simpleshow allows students that cannot speak clearly or are self-conscious about their voice to pick a voice for their video from the six different voice choices in the program. The program also gives students the ability to pick their image colors, upload their own images to personalize their videos, and then pick background music from many choices. Given the many choices that this tool provides, it would appeal to many different learning styles and could be easily differentiated for students by providing students different levels of support in their initial PowerPoint presentation.