Podcasting

Well first of all I have used podcast before with iTunes and my iPod, which I love. I love being able to go on iTunes and just typing a keyword or artist and finding a song that I have heard on the radio that I liked and downloading it to my iPod. I also liked reading about the different ways that teachers have used podcasting in their schools to let the students report on things that have been done in their class with different projects. I think that is a great thing to post on the school website so that other teachers and other viewers can see and hear what is going on and what children are learning about. It also gives students another way to show and express what they have learned.

Videos

I really liked taking videos of my students learning in the classroom. They also liked doing it. I used a flip camera which is the easiest thing in the world to use. I showed my students how it worked and they were using it to interview each other the first time I pulled it out. They began interviewing each other about a project that we were doing and why we were doing each of the things that was being done. They took complete charge and I was only facilitating. It gave them the chance to really think about the project that was being done, reflect on what they had learned, and operate a type of technology.