Yet another article on iPods, from The Seattle Times.
Teachers in this article are using the portable players to “make podcasts, practice their vocabulary words, English as a Second Language students are using them to practice English, getting the best possible sound quality from the youngsters, which sometimes meant doing it over and over.”
In addition, busy parents too are capitalising on the technology to “keep in touch with the world their children inhabit all day at school” by programming their computers “to capture the broadcasts”.
Teacher stimulates learning with Web logs
This article off neighbornewspapers.com writes about how a teacher gives her student a voice through blogging.
Loved the ending paragraph:
“She responds beautifully to teacher needs and student needs,” Ms. Hooper said. “She has the heart of a teacher.”
makes me wonder if we were slow in responding to our students’ needs at times *hmm*
Podcast Publishing With MovableType
Alan Levine has posted a MT podcast publishing guide. Indexing it, try it later.
3-in-1 post on edublogging
Read CNET’s Blogging 101–Web logs go to school article for the current edublogging scene.
MSNBC’s iPods become music to teachers� ears article wrties about how school children are picking portable MP3 players and bringing them into classrooms.
EPNweb.org – The Education Podcast Network, “is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.”
“Beyond the Blog” screencast
Brian Lamb of abject learning put together this screencast on educational blogging. His words on what the quicktime movie is about:
I ended up reviewing a few of the cooler educational weblogs we are hosting at UBC, briefly demonstrating supplementary technologies such as RSS and social bookmarks, and pointing toward all too few peers out in the ed tech weblog community. The minutes and the megabytes just flew by. Of course, once I was done I thought of all sorts of things I should have added — like referring people to Stephen Downes’s definitive treatise on Educational Blogging, but such is the nature of these things…
Interested to view, grab the movie from the original source or the local mirror. Enjoy 🙂