Chapter 8 talked about how with many different forms of technology it has become much easier to create and consume multimedia as well as text and digital images. The first part of the chapter talked about Podcasting. Podcasting is easy to use and does not require many tools to get set up. Also it has become huge and there are many podcasts out there that are informative and helpful to teachers and everyone. Some benefits of podcasting are that instead of making schools buy expensive radio stations, they can simply implement a podcasts and it’s free and accessible to many people. Podcasting isn’t just an audio too though; tools such as you tube allow students, teachers, and anyone to show pictures and videos to add to their podcasts through video publishing.
The next step up from podcasting is screen casting. With this awesome tool you combine audio with video. Though this can be a little more complicated than video publishing, if you can podcast you can screen cast! The chapter explained a little bit on how to use screen casts, and some cool things you can do with screen casts in the classroom. One of these is a web TV for the classroom. This is having your students create their own TV shows online. The chapter ended by the authors saying that our ability to create and share multimedia in more and more transparent ways is only going to continue to expand. What they mean by this is that we are advancing more and more into the future. Yes, right now there are many cool tools out there for us to explore, but these tools soon will be standard, and there will be newer tools coming out all the time. I took away from this that we need to jump on the wagon now and learn about this educational technology, because soon more will come out using the new technology as a base.
This reading, as every week, taught me a little bit more about yet another technology tool that I had never used. Podcasts and screen casts are completely new and scary tools that I have yet to experiment with. They sound cool and they seem to be a nice tool to use in the classroom, however to learn them will take a guy like me some effort. The authors seemed to read my mind when they ended the chapter. I really liked how in the end they sort of comforted us and told us that we have not me the end of technology. There will be new tools in the future and these tools may require us to know how to use the tools that are presently new. We as future educators need to learn these tools because soon we will have to learn new ones to keep out students up to date with technology.
As a future teacher I plan on trying to implement podcasts and screen casts into my classroom. They seem like a cool tool to use and they can be informative to me, my students, and also the parents of my students. I want the parents of my students to be confident in my abilities to teach them and learning this technology will instill this confidence. Like the authors said, there will be new technology; we need to teach the technology that we have now before more comes out.
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