My opionion of podcast

Podcasts are a great source for retrieving information/research and personal theories. Podcasts are exciting! I have always dreamed of becoming a radio announcer. I had my first basic radio broadcast when I completed my first podcast! How exciting!!!! I found it very easy to create a podcast. Of course, g-cast was very straight forward and easy to follow. With my students I can use podcasting as an engagement to an assignment. I looking forward to introducing podcasting to my students this fall.

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Walk through and Learning Objectives

This is a hilarious video that uses two administrators dancing in an office to encourage walk throughs. This video is directed towards administrators. It touted the benefits of having walk throughs in an interesting way. I can see it being effective because I can see myself thinking about this video on while doing a walk through. Just the thought made me have a positive impression of walk throughs and would encourage me to do them.

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He uses an interesting scary introduction to deal with the perception that fractions are evil. He goes on in the video to show how fractions are many parts of our lives. Although the video is very informative, it does not go into detailed explanations of how to do the problems. Yes it is a good introduction but, someone would have to look elsewhere for help to do the problems.

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Mrs. Burk Perimeter Rap

Mrs. Burk helps her students learn by doing a rap on perimeter and area. She also does one called Mrs. Burk Simplified Fraction Rap and Mrs. Burk's Measurement Rap. Although sometimes painful to watch, her videos would help the students remember the material. Although she is speaking clearly the background music is often so loud you can not hear what she is saying. Giving her students a device to help them remember is useful.

Netvibes

Netvibes is a huge resource. Like a lot other sites it would need close supervision. It has links to a lot of: search engines, to email accounts, picture sites, and podcasts. It also searchs blogs according to content. This page can also be personalized so you pick which ones you want fast access to. Some applications in the classroom would be: pictures for visual representations, current events, and teaching how search engines work.

Riya

Riya is a very useful tool for those who need to see something. They could make observations from pictures. For example, when covering ecosystems they could use some plants or trees to identify what ecosystem the picture is from. There are drawbacks. When the students look at this site they would have to be closely supervised. There are pictures that could be considered objectionable. There are better sites that could be used for projects like the one mentioned. The advantage of this site would be pictures are from people and there might be some pictures that are not available in all places.

TeacherTube

TeacherTube is a very useful tool for teachers and students. It has many options and is very well organized. It is broken by subject and grade level. It is set up like youtube (youtube.com) Both of these sites give you a chance to upload video to share with others. In addition to it being a good way for students to watch and learn, it would give them a chance to apply their knowledge to teach other. Teacher tube is, of course, directed towards education and would not have some objectionable material that youtube would have.