The idea of the podcasts being sort of a series of events that are related instead of one single posting is an intriguing idea in school.
As I mentioned before, I am doing a digital notebook with my classes this semester. The podcasts can be used in several different ways. Having talked to an ITRT from Spotsy, I was given the idea of having students narrate their examples in their notebooks so that people can follow along with their train of thought. They would have the option of doing a video or podcast. Another idea I thought of was having them do a brief summary of each chapter and then how it ties in with the things we have already discussed.
My issue is how to do the recordings in class. I can't send groups off all over the school to find a quiet place to record. I guess I could take them to the library and just spread them out over the place and hope the background noise is minimal. For those of you that have done recording in class, how have you handle the noise issue?
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
blogging update
I posted another topic for them to blog about and reminded them to give more than a few word answer. I am still getting short answers or kids typ1n l1k3 this in their posts. We used to do a weekly journal and I have started to use the blog as the replacement for that. How do you handle students that won't write more?
video
As if wikis and blogs werent' enough to deal with, now comes video and digital editing. I guess if I was really smart about it (no comments from the peanut gallery), I would wait until I mastered the first 2 before tackling the next item. A part of me also thinks, just do it all at once and see what works and what didn't.
Friday, my classes were working on their "digital notebooks". I added in the idea of a hypermedia presentation and showed them how to hyperlink in their powerpoints. I mentioned the idea of incorporating video into their work and showed them an example or 2 of videos on the topic that we are currently on. I told them if we can manage it, we would probably attempt to make our own videos as well.
One suggestion given to me was have the students do a problem and film it after each step. They could then narrate how the problem was done. Another idea that was talked about in our grad class, was to give them a bunch of scenes and they would have to figure out what order (or edit them to go together smoothly) and then add audio to go along with the video. Any other suggestions?
This is a project that will go on all semester. My plan is to work on it in class at least once every 2 weeks. Ideally we work on it once a week, even if only for 30 minutes. That way they won't get so far behind. I've mentioned that they can be looking for stuff to link on their own time, but I don't expect many to do that.
Friday, my classes were working on their "digital notebooks". I added in the idea of a hypermedia presentation and showed them how to hyperlink in their powerpoints. I mentioned the idea of incorporating video into their work and showed them an example or 2 of videos on the topic that we are currently on. I told them if we can manage it, we would probably attempt to make our own videos as well.
One suggestion given to me was have the students do a problem and film it after each step. They could then narrate how the problem was done. Another idea that was talked about in our grad class, was to give them a bunch of scenes and they would have to figure out what order (or edit them to go together smoothly) and then add audio to go along with the video. Any other suggestions?
This is a project that will go on all semester. My plan is to work on it in class at least once every 2 weeks. Ideally we work on it once a week, even if only for 30 minutes. That way they won't get so far behind. I've mentioned that they can be looking for stuff to link on their own time, but I don't expect many to do that.
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