Students – Can the students access the media you created or use the technology required? For example, a paid version of Photoshop, Microsoft word, a paid subscription to use the content needed by the instructor.
Ease of Use – Is it hard to create? Similarly, I found Canva very user friendly when we can edit the already created templates. However, it was nearly impossible for me to create an infograph from scratch and for it to look appealing with little to no experience. It takes a lot of practice, skills, and experience to get good with Canva. Repetition does make perfection.
Cost
There is a cost in all aspects of using a service or a good. It could be your time (watching ads), privacy (sharing personal information to a 3rd party), and money (the original medium of exchange). With many competitions in the technology field, costs have significantly lowered from what it was before. However, since the costs have lowered, other substitutions are used like your time and privacy. Just how costly would it get?
Teaching
How does the media or multimedia support what the teacher is teaching? I think personally, a media or multimedia to support teaching would be one that acts as an extension of what the teacher is lecturing about. Similarly, like when a lecture is going on and a student is trying to remember the information the teacher throws at them. The perfect media would be an animated infographic of the content to help students organize the material.
Interaction
Interaction is an important part. It helps to get students involved. So the tool used must be beneficial in helping the student and the content grow a stronger connection. But how to measure the efficiency of it is harder than normal.
Organization
How much the school is supporting the technology required to access your media? For example, you are using a drawing application to teach students to draw. You would need iPads to download the application for each student which would rise the costs substantially.
Networking
Can you network with this medium being used? Mattermost and edtech helped networking possible between students without having the need to add them. EdTech is a blog where everyone can access and mattermost is used as a forum similar to discord. It helps students able to efficiently share ideas and to connect. Privacy risks are brought up to the student’s attention during registration of the site from the very start. Which brings awareness to the risks imposed.
Security
Privacy is only as important as how serious it is being taken. Personal information sometimes isn’t taken seriously enough online. Like information needed to register an account should not be revealed in some cases to keep at least some level of privacy. Just how much privacy would be needed?
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