Podcasting is very interesting, especially how you can make a video and you can use it in your classroom. I like the fact that you can download a podcast and watch it at anytime. If you have a student that is homebound or even with the bounds of In-School-Suspension or has missed a lot of school due to illness, it will be easier for them to catch up with the instructor applying the lesson to a podcast and having the instruction there for them to watch and be able to learn with instruction. This is also good, if it is important that you are in the middle of teaching a lesson and you have an meeting scheduled you can teach and have it downloaded for the sub to show. This not only makes it easier on the kids, not allowing them to miss a lesson and also the instructor because you will not fall behind on your lesson plans.
Podcasting is different than a Wiki although you can tie a Wiki into your Podcast, especially if the teacher is out. The instruction can come from the Podcast and then students can be directed to go to the Wiki for any questions answered to the assignment to for help with their assignments.
I have an Ipod, and a Iphone. I do use them to my advantage. I use them in my discoveries with my classwork, by looking things up on the internet and downloading videos for future references. I would also use these future tools in my future classrooms. The only disadvantages that I do see about the communication tools of being online are those that can not access it because of not having the internet at home because of being at a Title I school.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Web 2.0 Tools Assignment #7
I really think that it is pretty cool how we have all this technology out there beyond email and calling each other on the phone. Wiki, Voice thread, and Social bookmarking can all benefit teachers in so many different ways.
Wiki pages are really neat if you have a class set up that needs help possibly with homework. That's is a good way to use it. The teacher can set up the students with the class and I am not sure if you can embed an instruction onto it or not, with a voice thread but it could be worth a try. It is a definite benefit. Either other students can help each other out or the teacher can challenge the students with questions to make them think about their homework or answer any homework questions that stump them.
Also the social bookmarking is something that I am going to start using now as I am preparing for my residency. I have a few websites that i have on my computer that my own children use that are just bookmarked, but now that I have learned about this social bookmarking I am going to use it to my advantage. This way where ever they are they can just log on and they can get the page they need and go. These will benefit any teacher or upcoming teacher as well if they know and learn more about these sites.
The only downside that I see as of now is that I currently work at a Title I school and will have to work there for a few years so we will not have the advantages that other schools will, but there will come a time that everyone will have internet, although using these within the school is a postive and is a can do.
Wiki pages are really neat if you have a class set up that needs help possibly with homework. That's is a good way to use it. The teacher can set up the students with the class and I am not sure if you can embed an instruction onto it or not, with a voice thread but it could be worth a try. It is a definite benefit. Either other students can help each other out or the teacher can challenge the students with questions to make them think about their homework or answer any homework questions that stump them.
Also the social bookmarking is something that I am going to start using now as I am preparing for my residency. I have a few websites that i have on my computer that my own children use that are just bookmarked, but now that I have learned about this social bookmarking I am going to use it to my advantage. This way where ever they are they can just log on and they can get the page they need and go. These will benefit any teacher or upcoming teacher as well if they know and learn more about these sites.
The only downside that I see as of now is that I currently work at a Title I school and will have to work there for a few years so we will not have the advantages that other schools will, but there will come a time that everyone will have internet, although using these within the school is a postive and is a can do.
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