Today in class, we discussed several sites for digital storytelling. The list is below:
Thursday, February 11, 2010
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
iTunes U
I have been familiar with iTunes and Podcasts for quite a while. I especially like podcasts because they are free :)
The recent discrovery I found was a series of videos produced about poetry that will go very well with my Poetry unit that I teach in the spring. They are poets speaking about their own poems before reciting them. I think it is a great exercise for students to emulate, and I may even make them do a similar thing with the poetry project that we do.
I also enrolled my own podcast onto iTunes so that people can subscribe to it. That means that any time I record and upload an update to my podbean.com site, it will automatically update the itunes of people who have subscribed to my "LitCast." I love that.
The recent discrovery I found was a series of videos produced about poetry that will go very well with my Poetry unit that I teach in the spring. They are poets speaking about their own poems before reciting them. I think it is a great exercise for students to emulate, and I may even make them do a similar thing with the poetry project that we do.
I also enrolled my own podcast onto iTunes so that people can subscribe to it. That means that any time I record and upload an update to my podbean.com site, it will automatically update the itunes of people who have subscribed to my "LitCast." I love that.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
21st Century Skills in the News
I came across this article [ What every 21st-century educator should know ] and thought it would be a worthwhile read. I particularly like the comments the author makes on focus and on democratization of knowledge. The latter is a very useful tool, in my experience. Students take command of knowledge when they produce something for the global community. They want to be percieved as 'in the know.'
Worthwhile read, if you get a chance.
Worthwhile read, if you get a chance.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
PodBean.com site for podcasting
The site Podbean.com is a podcast-hosting site. This past week I set up a podcasting site for my 9th grade English class. I called it my LitCast and have even uploaded it to itunes. I think that it can be a great tool for my students to have updates of what we do in class. The biggest thing to all of this was getting a template and system set up. I think it will be quite easy to run now that I have the initial setup out of the way.
Check out my LitCast at http://mrbecksfort.podbean.com/
or go to itunes and search for me... I should be up there soon!
Check out my LitCast at http://mrbecksfort.podbean.com/
or go to itunes and search for me... I should be up there soon!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
...Podcasting...
As the video below shows, Podcasting is not just something for us to do...
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Courtesy of one of my burgeoning favorite web2.0 tools, the NCTE Ning!
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