Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Reflection 7: Learning in Hand Podcast #21: Podcast from iPod touch

For my latest blog post I decided to go back to Tony Vincents website and listen in to a few more of his Learning in Hands Podcasts. I found the "Podcast from iPod touch" to be particularly interesting because of its relevance to what we recently did in class in creating our own podcasts via GarageBand on the Mac computers. To this point I thought that was the only one of few ways to do such a thing and was pleasantly surprised to find that you could do the same by using an Ipod touch and a website called Posterous. One key note that Tony made was that the Ipods do not come with built in mics so those would need to be purchased, unless you have the newest generation 32 or 64 bit version because the headphones have mics built in. With that said, you create the podcast the same way you would by recording whatever tid bit you want to and then you add the podcast to Posterous. The cool thing about Posterous is that it has privacy setting so that only certain people can see the podcast whether that be a teacher or certain people in a group. Whomever you choose the settings to allow to view it. I really like this feature because it creates a safe environment for the students to voice their opinions or to be able to create something and not worry about the judgment of their peers. This could be a great tool to use in the classroom because it is so easy to have the students make a podcast reflection over what was done in class, upload to Posterous and then the teacher can go through and review all of the uploads without having to sort through them and can listen to all of them through iTunes, not at just the computer they students were docked at. Another option would be the teacher using this as a tool to go over homework assignments or talk about the class and give them all a way to listen to what needs to be said through podcasts. This is the kind of technology I could really see being implemented in my classroom because it makes things easier on both the teacher and the student, and it is good change of pace from the usual type of school work. This is something I definitely want to try using in the future.

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