I would like to focus on the creation of my first podcast. My opinion is that becoming the student again is key to being a fantastic teacher. I felt totally frozen. I'm not used to a MAC we don't have access to MAC at school. So, I downloaded Audacity with the help of a team member. This reminds me how important teams are in my classroom. It's the difference in some of my students being successful and some will not. It's scaffolding giving help when needed so everyone can have a voice. Every person is valuable and we need their voice.
Back to the process. I downloaded Audacity, recorded my partners response to What is digital writing?
After I had it recorded, Kathy helped my change the format so I could use Garage Band in MAC.
I did some editing deciding to take out my voice and question since she restated the question in her answer. Next, I split a couple of places where she used "Um."
My thinking now is that I don't have MAC so I'd like to learn how to podcast in another format for Windows. One of my group members said they felt that Audacity was not very user friendly. I still don't have a clear idea in my mind of how or why I would use pod casting in my classroom. I hope to hear more ideas from the whole group.
It seems to me that all things have a place and I'm sure this does. If I could figure it out I'd like to add some music just to go thru that process. At this point, my thinking is that students really enjoy visuals to communicate. Most of them do have I pods and I do not. Perhaps that is why I' not sure how I would use pod casting. I am learning many things. Just typing this piece shows me that the phrase is two words just as I pod is also separated with a space which I did not realize. All of this brings me back to my classroom. The students differences is wide. Some are on the computer every day. Some only use a computer in computer class one day a week during the school year.
I'm also interested in figuring out the tools to make my podcast the most interesting. More is not always better?????
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ReplyDeleteI left my first day of OWP Digital writing with enthusiasm. I had two pod casts loaded on my wiki. I did it. Last night I opened the wiki to relook and relearn, disappointment struck. One of them was gone. The most important one, my interview of Kandice. When Kathy was helping me upload my 2nd pod cast, it replace my first. We thought we recovered it but we didn't. It is probably lost because I used a classroom MAC instead of my own laptop. I learned, I created and I jumped in. I get the process and after getting access last night to our text, it is coming together. Is all lost????
ReplyDeleteNo, I've got it and I can redo it. Do I understand the transferring from one sight to another on all of these programs yet? No. I'm ready today to learn more.