Short movie: Let's Dance Little Pookie/ Blog 4

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All about podcast:
Eagle Nest Radio I was very impressed with this podcast. I congratulate the 3rd grade class for speaking so clearly during their broadcast. I know when I have to record something for an audience I get very nervous (view my book reading above)! After listening to this broadcast it made creating a podcast seem much easier to me than before. When I heard the term or the first time, I thought a podcast was something that was only created by the professionals and it had to be okay-ed by Apple.
I really enjoyed listening to this 3rd grade class. They did a great job teaching about Ancient Rome using only words. I was easily able to create a picture in my head of the Colosseum, and the old aqueducts. Overall this podcast was done exceptionally well!

The Benefits of Podcasting in the Classroom: Wow! I never realized that podcasting is a really great way of using higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy pyramid in the classroom. I just never thought of the connection. This video was really helpful in describing some of the many ways podcasting can be used in the classroom. Podcast are not only teacher friendly, but student friendly too.
I have stated before my concern for technology in the classroom dissolving the need for a school building all together, but I feel better about podcasting in/outside the classroom. In the video was the scenario of the girl missing school due to illness, but since her teacher broadcast his class lectures on itunes, she didn't fall behind from missing class. I also like knowing that podcasting is also very much parent friendly and accessible so that they can hear what their students are learning if they chose to.
100 ways to use your ipod: This site was almost overwhelmingly informative! I think I now know everything there is to know about podcast and more. It never did occur to me to use my smartphone (iphone) for things other than email, youtube, facebook, and of course the occasional phone call. Ever since I have started using iTunes I never once have investigated the world of podcasting. It is a very cool way of broadcasting information in a radio-clear format without the need for radio-wave (i.e FM and AM or a boom-box/stereo at all). New technology like podcasting really makes me feel old, but it is still very exciting and I'm very eager to use it in my future classroom!
The Education Podcast Network: This is the first podcast website I didn't really enjoy. However there were many many podcast available to listen too, some were not appropriate for classroom use, except for maybe at the college level. It is good to know though that there are websites like these dedicated to podcast of all sorts.
This website would be like a database of podcast, or like an encyclopedia of podcast. Its a good idea to have websites like these to make podcast easy to access outside of a program like iTunes. I truly have learned so much about podcasting through all these websites and feel educated enough with them to go ahead and create my own at anytime!

Life Presentation and Blog Post 3

The iSchool, however innovative it may seem, is also very hard to consider to replace everything in a school system. I understand saving paper and going green, that's all very awesome, but I don't think that the size of the system should be that of the iTouch. I know for me that it becomes very frustrating at times to have to zoom-in on my smartphone's screen, or even sometimes just get out my laptop to save my eyes from strain. I think a iPad-sized screen to a 8 1/2" x 11"-sized device that has this iSchool system installed would be taken too much better.
I am in agreement with Travis that the iSchool system is one that would benifit the WHOLE school, and that it is something that would maximize our use of technology. Something like the iSchool could possibly eliminate lockers, backpacks, and even classroom shelving, but at the same time I think that couldn't something like this also eliminate the need for the school building itself?! If the teacher had so much accessibility to her students, classes could potentially go soley internet-based, and the classroom would be a mythological place. This brings me to say that the iSchool is a very neat idea, however in Travis' description I feel like it would be a replacement for school, and I believe we need to be able to learn subjects in ways that are in conjunction with technology and not learn soley through technology. Technology is a tool for our students, but I'm not so sure it should be a replacement for school.

Lost Generation

AWESOME video! I feel like this is a neat use of poetry-like writing, and I really thought it was neat how it could be read in reverse. I hated hearing it at first because I feel like the statement is a truth about our developing world and upcoming generations, but it gave me chills that the piece could be read in reverse to give the listener peace, and a glimpse of hope. I must say that this video was very well done, and a great use of technology, however I didn't really feel like it had much to do with incorporating technology into the classroom.

Virtual Choir
Totally incredible! That performance was mind blowing, and how it was done, even more so amazing! Going against my previous statement about the iSchool, I think i would be alright with seeing music being taught using only technology. These people were able to work together over the web to produce a beautiful piece of music led by a conductor. I feel, however, that music is somewhat something that is more universal when it comes to learning how to preform it, and using it (i.e. singing). Now I know readers, you are probably thinking "you do know Anna, that not everyone can sing?", but I also feel like music is much more basic than say chemistry, or learning a foreign language. It seems to me that it wasn't too hard, for even such a large group such as in the video, to get together and sing in tune over the internet. I did enjoy seeing this use of the internet though, and would show it to students of my own as an example of how very fortunate we are to have such incredible technology to use.

Don't teach your kids this stuff:
Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Administration program at Iowa State University. He also is the Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation's only center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National School Boards Association. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at dangerouslyirrelevant.org.

Dear Mr. McLeod,
I really enjoyed reading this post, but I have to disagree with it. Students need to know what technology is out there for their disposal. The classroom, I believe isn't going anywhere, it's simply getting a makeover that will be a tremendous improvement for students of future generations. Technology I hope will only encourage our students to want to do more!
I read your post for Dr. Strange's EDM310 class and hope that you will check out my blog along with other students' in my class.