Podcasting
I listened to the following:
Photoshop for Digital Photographers
Nightly Business Report – Video Podcast PBS
Dilbert Animated Cartoons Podcast Tech Support Call
Learn to Speak Spanish with Discover Spanish
The Daily Giz Wiz
The Sound of Young America
I like listening to the podcast there are millions and many have very specific topics. I prefer video vodcast over audio. I think most students would prefer video as well. I think most students are aware of podcasting because they seem to all have ipods. If they are to find a podcast for a class I think the information needs to be very specific. However they may still see inappropriate podcast. Podcast could be used very easy in the classroom by downloading and listening to as a group over speakers and showing on an overhead projector. This could be followed with a hands on project. Files could be copied into each students folders if they needed to listen to them individually. An issue that could make it difficult to do is the bandwidth space that is available on many school computers. Also it is not available for hearing impaired students.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Thing 17
To blog or to wiki?? There is a difference. A blog is more of a personal thing and often the opinion of the author. Others can comment on blogs but cannot change the content. A wiki is a website that can be edited. A wiki also is usually specific information and not opinion.
A wiki could be used to display knowledge that students have learned about a particular topic. A blog could be used for students to log their progress on a particular project, and any obstacles they may have encountered.
Problems that could occur with wikis are the students ability to edit. A lot of time could be spent making changed that are not necessary one student prefers different colors, fonts or layout designs and this could be a time consuming conflict. To get around this students could be given certain criteria that cannot be changed after it is set by a leader.
A wiki could be used to display knowledge that students have learned about a particular topic. A blog could be used for students to log their progress on a particular project, and any obstacles they may have encountered.
Problems that could occur with wikis are the students ability to edit. A lot of time could be spent making changed that are not necessary one student prefers different colors, fonts or layout designs and this could be a time consuming conflict. To get around this students could be given certain criteria that cannot be changed after it is set by a leader.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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