The Museumbox site produces tools for anyone to build a difference of opinion or description of any event, person, or historical period. In Museumbox users create a virtual storage box with individual boxes inside. Each box has six sides; on each box side creators can add images, text, sounds, videos, actual files, and links. With these boxes teachers can break events into separate boxes, allowing a viewer to better understand the drawer topic as a whole. For example, a storage could be created for a US history class on the women of WWII. Using pictures, videos, audios, and text in a single box, a teacher could establish why more women were sent to work during this time. In another box the instructor could show the jobs the women were actually doing during the war. Finally, the instructor could include a third box depicting what happened to these women after the war was over.
Museum box is very similar to PowerPoint; each box has six different sides that are presented like slides in a PowerPoint. So far to me this tool seems like it can be very helpful for a classroom lesson should be fairly easy. I believe Museumbox helps create a better understanding to the viewers, than perhaps a lecture or just reading from a book. Although using Museumbox inefficiently could cause a student to not learn much at all if anything. For example the instructor could create boxes with little information on the drawer topic leaving the viewer in the dark perhaps. Using all text or images on every box side could limit what is actually taken from the whole storage box, not meeting all learning styles a classroom deserves. These same issues exist with slides inside of PowerPoint. Although exploiting this tool currently, educators can touch on every different learning style students may have.
What Museum box is and how it works.
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How would you use this tool in your educational environment?
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