Podcasts in Education (4.20.12)

podomatic.com allows people to create their own podcasts. We discussed the use of these podcasts in the clasroom, mostly so that parents can stay involved. While I think these could be helpful, I do think that a parent's involvement is thair own responsibility. Parents that want to be involved will, podcasts or not, and parents who do not plan to get involved won't, podcasts or not. These tools are all just extras. I can see how it would be helpful in some situations, but I don't know that it is really a necessity for a teacher to create these.

Video Interview Project

Video Project

Video Interviews (4.13.12)

During class today, we discussed the uses for iMovie in regards to interviews. We talked about how to do fade-outs, how to use the equalizer to tone down too much of the high tones, how to add text and change the font, etc. We saw how this was used in classroom interviews and I think that this is useful material to have in my back pocket. I could use it to interview students about their feelings about arts in schools come levy time.