24 February - Digital Story 1

Well this week we learned about what we will be doing for the next few weeks. The next few weeks we will be doing digital story's. I had a great time watching digital story's that have already been made and what the requirement are for making my own.


Mostly I think that I can use this in classes but I do not see any way to use this in my life right now, except for this assignment. In the class room setting it would be very useful to bring in a feel for what you are talking about and help with the mood that you are wanting to set. As a group of teachers you could make some and use them in your lessons.


In the future I do see may self putting some digital story's together because I think that it helps kids to get excited or see the meaning about what they are learning. Which motivation is a huge part in teaching. I don't think that my teaching will change to much at least the style but I do think that my teaching can improve with this information. After making digital story's I will be able to share them with my colleagues so if they want to use them they can. I am excited to teach.

Google Docs and You

This vidcast is called google docs and you. It is a how to type vidcast. This how to vidcast is to teach someone who does not know about google docs how to use it.  The three points that it talks about are how to create, how google docs saves, and how to share or collaborate with others.

This is to help with all the core curriculum by providing ways for kids to work together. That is the reason that I choose to do a how to use google docs. Through google docs we as teachers and students can provide the tools to work together and be able to communicate with each other. This could help a lot with are teaching and learning.
The things that could be potential drawbacks are few but there are some. One is if the students or teacher don’t completely understand google docs then technical difficulties will always be a problem.
To continue to use this program I would make more short vidcasts to instruct more difficult but wonderful things that google docs do. I think that this vidcast will help you learn and be able to apply google docs in your class room or just life.

This last week was great we learned some new fun tool and how to make a vidcast. I think the funnest thing that I learned was jing it is a cool tool to show what is online.

I'm still trying to figure out how to use it except for this assignment. I do think that i can use it for more but right now I cant think of anything except this assignment which is to show how to do something. Maybe in class I could make it to show the kids how to do something so when they go home they have an easier time doing the assignment but that is still a how to do.


Well this week we will be using jing to make a how to use Google docs. This will be pretty fun to see how it all works out and to see the potential of this tool. I am excited to see more about this tool and ways to use it to make life easier.

Podcasts

This week I learned how to put a podcast up on my web. I also learned how to make one using my iPhone. We had to make a podcast for the kids in are class. I did mine with Tyler on rock climbing.


I really like this because as a teacher I could make a short podcast on what I want my kids to do for their homework or what they should study about for a test. My students would enjoy it because the can understand more fully what they should do. This is a great tool to learn how to use. Teachers could use it in their teaching to help with out of class work. Now if I wanted to do something for a class on the computer with a podcast i could. This will help me and my colleagues to share teaching or assignments with each other.


This information on teaching with technology can help me to prepare to teach a new generation of kids how understand most of this stuff. I definitely think that I can use this in my teaching and I am excited to learn new ways to apply what I have learned. From doing this simple task it helps me to see what can be created for my class or colleagues to help them out side of school. I think if I can figure out how to use this when I become a teacher then I will be great:)