Vid Casting

This week we started throwing around ideas for a vid cast that is due in a couple of weeks. We kinda decided to do one on the Renaissance, but hadn't gotten any farther than that. We talked a lot in class about how to use vid casts possibly in a classroom. I really look forward to using and learning more about vid casts as I work on it further.

Podcasting

Today we experimented with Podcasting. We did it with a public service announcement. Me and Lori chose to do it on cyberbulling. I had a ton of fun with it. We were laughing and had tons of fun writing the script and recording it. I mean we seriously had to try it at least 15 times to get it right.
I would like to use this now to help me possibly with homework for teachers. If they are willing to allow me to record them, then possibly on the days that I'm gone, I can listen to their lectures on my iPod. That would be so totally awesome!
When I become a teacher, for certain subjects (This really wouldn't work well with math), I could record and podcast my lectures so that my students would know what I talked about during class and be able to listen and keep on top of their homework.

EDEL 3250 Google part 2

This week we worked on building a Google site. I have to say that it was a lot of work! Most of it was a review from 2200, but it was nice that we went over it step by step in class. I really think if I worked at it, I could probably get comfortable working with a class website.
I really don't see myself running a website at this current point in time considering my schedule, but it's good practice for when I am ready to start working on my very own real class website. It really works well for me to learn now when I have Doc Waters to help me if I get stuck rather than being frustrated on my own with no one to help me.
Once I become a teacher, I could really see myself using a class website in one form or another. It would be helpful to my students and parents. Students and parents can check announcements related to the class, get missed assignments, etc.

EDEL 3250 Google Part 1

This week we started learning about google, specifically gmail and google docs. I was already somewhat familiar with gmail since I already have an account. I really like it a lot better than the rest of the email accounts because it has a lot more features. But what I really loved learning about this week was google docs! Our entire cohort is using them all the time now.
We're using them on most of our assignments already and we just barely learned about them! Our entire cohort made a contact list and a calendar for our classes in google docs that we share with the whole cohort. Google docs is completely amazing.
I plan on definitely using this a lot in the future. Google docs really promotes collaboration with colleagues and other students. It's a perfect medium for papers that need that. I really look forward to using this in my professional life.