Before reading this chapter, I had a vague idea of each concept but really wasn’t sure what each method of technology was, and how to incorporate each into the classroom. I was familiar with podcasting because I used to listen to different podcasts in high school that incorporated the current books I was reading. I feel that I can easily incorporate podcasting into the classroom today. As a teacher I could have a radio show where students tell parents what is all going on in my classroom. This would be a great method for parents to see what their students are accomplishing at school. I am an ESL minor and would love to use podcasting as a method of tracking individual improvement in learning English. I would love to have a poetry unit and have the students create their own podcasts on the different poems they authored. Podcasting is also an easy way for you to go back as a teacher and reflect on your student’s improvement. It would also be a good idea if you student will be gone for an extended amount of time to use a pod cast to learn material. I was talking to a teacher who said one of his students was going to miss 3 weeks of school to visit his father in CA. As a teacher, who are you to tell the parents that your child cannot miss 3 weeks of school. On the other hand, missing three weeks causes traumatic setback to any student. A teacher could podcast each lesson for the student to listen to. This way, when the student returns they won’t be as far behind.
Video and screencasting would also be a good way to incorporate learning in the classroom. When I was in High School, we always made Spanish videos to illustrate our learning of certain material. Students can create videos to illustrate the plot of a certain book. Complete different interviews of students. Teachers could also screencast difficult material on the web. For example if a student is doing a math problem at home, the teacher could have example problems online and how the teacher worked through them. I know when I was a child; my parents could never help me with my homework because they didn’t understand the method of solving the problem. This way parents could see the method the teacher is using to solve the problem and the students can see the screencasting to answer problems independently.
I have heard of live streaming before on different reality TV shoes. They had these to allow the viewer to log in at any time and check what is going on inside the show. However this can be used for educational purposes as well. When I logged into the live streaming website (http://www.ustream.tv/) I instantly logged into a live streaming video from 60 degrees under the water, close to the Great Barrier Reef. Students can easily log into different parts of the world and see what is going on. This method would be great for teaching different cultures to students or even different science material. How cool would it be to have a live streaming video of a space probe going to a different planet or of different people in china going to work. This way, students can see a firsthand experience without leaving the comfort of their own home.
Overall there was a lot of beneficial information in this particular chapter that I can carry out in my classroom.
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