Podcasting

Podcasting is a great tool and would be very useful in classrooms.  The teacher could create a podcast that the students could access in the classroom or at home when doing homework, this could help students remember how to do the work the teacher taught in the classroom that the students forgot how to do the work by the time they got home.  Podcasts are convienient, they can be put on portable devices and taken whenever.  Podcasts just like wikis have to be from a reliable source, anyone can create a podcast so just because it is on the internet doesn't mean the information is true.

Podcasts and Web 2.0 are similiar because they are both used online but are different because Podcasts can be  uploaded to any device where as the Web 2.0 seem more like applications that are used for the internet.  They can both be used to create something that you want to create and design it the way you want it.

I don't own an Ipod or MP3 player but I do have an Iphone 4, I mainly use my phone for calls, texts, and internet.  I haven't really used it for music, I know there is a ton of stuff I could do with my phone but just don't know how to do it all.  I have used my Iphone when I coached my daughters cheer team, it came in handy because I could just plug it into a speaker.  A lot of stuff can be downloaded and used on portable devices such as, Ipods, MP3 players, and smart phones, this type of device could be extremely useful in the classroom.

Wiki's, Blogs, and Voicethread

I don't think I will be using wiki's in my classroom due to the fact that anyone can create and put information in a wiki. The students may find information that is false, I don't want them to have false information. It could be really fun to create a classroom blog, it would be fun for students to help create it and decide what information we could add to the blog. Parents may also like the blog idea so they could see the different daily things that their children are doing that they don't usually get to see or hear about.

Socialbookmarking would be a great tool to use to make internet browsing easier for the teacher and students to find information or websites that they need. When you are looking around on the internet and find useful websites it would be great to be able to bookmark or tag the website to use again in the future. Voicethread could be a useful tool for older students, I don't think it would be useful in the elementary level.

I had never heard of Tapped In but after researching it a little bit I think this would be a useful tool as a teacher. It is always a good idea to communicate with collegues, it is great to share and get ideas from others. Tapped In offers many ideas and different resources for teachers to use.

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Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R., & Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningful Learning with Technology (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.SRI International. http://tappedin.org/tappedin/web/about.jsp