Podcasts

Looking at Podcasts made me think about how I can use them in my classroom. Some that  I found on iTunes were really good and were ones I could see myself using in the classroom. Also, learning how to make podcasts is very useful for when I want to use a podcast in the class and I am not able to find one and so I can make one that I can tailor for my own students. It's a great way to integrate technology in the classroom and making learning more interesting and fun for our students.

Garage Band makes it really easy to create a podcast and it really is easier than I thought it would be. Making my own podcast and recording my own voice and even adding music and images was really fun and I bet it would be very exciting for your students to hear you on the podcast when you show it to them.

Real or not Real?

It was really fun to look at different websites and investigate whether they were real or not because as teachers we will have to use technology in our classrooms and it is important that we are making sure that the website we are getting our information from is realible and true. It would not be a good thing to show our students a website or teach them something and then that information is not completely correct. This reminds me of the science class I am taking this term and how important it is that as teachers we are not teaching misconceptions to our students, misconceptions that will stick to them for the rest of their lives. That is why it is so important that we analyze every book and every website that we have our students read or look at. It is also important to start teaching kids how to tell a realiable websire from an unreliable one so that at a young age we have them analyzing what they are reading.

Google Earth

I had never used Google Earth before and I was amazed at what you could do with it. It was amazing to type in an address from anywhere in the US or anywhere else and see the actual image of the place. I looked up my old house in California and looking at it, it brought a lot of memories back. I am excited to be able to use this in my own classroom and getting students interested in technology and in learning about geography.