Thursday, May 1, 2008
Last Day of Class
I just tried to finish all of my assignments for today. I am particularly excited to have explored Mixcraft as a replacement for Garageband for those who are not equipped with an Apple computer. It was fairly easy to create a short podcast and to add sound to it. I uploaded it to Gcast and I am now trying to see if I could have access to it from this blog.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Del.icio.us
Today we had a workshop on Del.icio.us - thanks Bonnie - a very useful tool. I like the idea of being able to reach my bookmarks from anywhere, and I like the idea to share them with others. It was impressive to see how quick it was to add people to the network and to see their bookmarks. One can also suscribe to recieve bookmarks on a specific topic - that is also convenient - and I like the idea of pulling together resources and efforts. I am not yet clear on some of the functions - but I will explore and learn to use that tool.
ITunes, IPods & GCast
I just lost the post I just wrote.. .on this.. so I am trying again.
Thanks to our presenter Roger, we got tons of useful information on these three tools. I must confess I used to be a touch bias towards the Itune and Ipod because I did not like the very proprietory approach from Apple. However, I must say I was impressed with ITunes University and I will go back to visit and will recommand to ESL teachers I know who would really use some of the content.
I also loved touching and playing with the IPods - Thanks for bringing them to class. It was interesting to hear that with organization, these tools can be used in the classroom without too many problems- the logistic being an important consideration - this was really comforting.
As for GCast - thanks for pointing this resource out - I was particularly impressed by the ability to call from a phone and drop a podcast message off - Fantastic. I can see tons of use for all of these tools and I am looking forward to having a little more available time to learn more and start using these.
Thank you thank you thank you....
Thanks to our presenter Roger, we got tons of useful information on these three tools. I must confess I used to be a touch bias towards the Itune and Ipod because I did not like the very proprietory approach from Apple. However, I must say I was impressed with ITunes University and I will go back to visit and will recommand to ESL teachers I know who would really use some of the content.
I also loved touching and playing with the IPods - Thanks for bringing them to class. It was interesting to hear that with organization, these tools can be used in the classroom without too many problems- the logistic being an important consideration - this was really comforting.
As for GCast - thanks for pointing this resource out - I was particularly impressed by the ability to call from a phone and drop a podcast message off - Fantastic. I can see tons of use for all of these tools and I am looking forward to having a little more available time to learn more and start using these.
Thank you thank you thank you....
Podcasting
I really enjoyed the workshop on podcasting and I am eager to find a tool similar to GarageBand to be able to create posdcast with a layer of music. I did a search a found a very similar tool called MixedCraft which I intend to test today to create my podcast for EDT620.
Leigh did a super and thorough job - with her handouts, we have everything we need to research more on the use of posdcast within education, and on creating them with Audacity. Leigh, thanks for all the great resources. I can see tons of applications within the classroom for podcast, especially if teaching languages. But also, the technology in support of education aspect is very interesting and appealling to me - providing ways for students and teachers to create, to share, to provide remote materials to listen to on the go or at home from a PC- fantastic!
Leigh did a super and thorough job - with her handouts, we have everything we need to research more on the use of posdcast within education, and on creating them with Audacity. Leigh, thanks for all the great resources. I can see tons of applications within the classroom for podcast, especially if teaching languages. But also, the technology in support of education aspect is very interesting and appealling to me - providing ways for students and teachers to create, to share, to provide remote materials to listen to on the go or at home from a PC- fantastic!
Catching up - at least trying to
I am falling totally behind with my blog entries (I am currently taking 3 graduate classes, and teaching one undergraduate class). I have to post weekly blog entries for 3 blogs, one for each graduate class, and read my students' blogs (which, by the way, I enjoy tremendously). So... it is not for lack of things to say about all the neat technology tools I am learning in all of these classes - I have plenty to say - but somehow - just getting each assignment completed for all rarely allows me the luxury to come and post on my blogs.
Somehow, I am still hopefull that I will be able to post on most of the required items before the end of the semester - I just won't have the neat chronological order that would come with regular timely posts.
Somehow, I am still hopefull that I will be able to post on most of the required items before the end of the semester - I just won't have the neat chronological order that would come with regular timely posts.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
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