Have you ever had one of those group projects where you meet at the Library, don't finish the paper that is due the next day, and agree to work on individual parts with one person deligated as the "copy/paster" who puts everything together? Well, I have.
Last semester for my TE 301 class I was in a group of 4 who created a unit lesson plan on Michigan Geography and we needed a 10 page document that went along with our spreadsheet of the actual activities/lessons we were going to use each day for a 4 week period. The day before the assignment was due we had at least 25 e-mails floating around with small changes on each attachment and as the group facilitator I found it OVERWHELMING!
Thankfully, others have had the same problems and today there are different kinds of collaborative technologies available at no cost! Vyew is one that we learned about today, as well as Google Docs and Spreadsheets.
I'm excited to build my own knowledge of these tools as I may incorporate them into my future career in Special Education.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Monday, June 4, 2007
PoDcAsTiNg????
We started the day today with a video that explained how to add a feed for podcasts in our blogs but I was left with one small question...What the heck is a podcast? After a second tutorial video I now know that a podcast is a way to access media files through an RSS feed. Basically, we use Google Alerts to let us know when the text from any page we've subcribed to has changed or been updated. Likewise, we will use iTunes as an aggregator to let us know when any podcastable site has changed or updated any media files.
Learning about podcasting was very overwhelming at first so I tried to think of an example of how I could use a podcast to better comprehend the purpose.
For some special education students, a disability is shared between themselves and mom or dad. Disabilities with a clear, biological basis, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has no cure and could potentially impact things that we too often take for granted-like asking mom or dad for help with your homework. If you were a child with Autism who could not read and your teacher assigned you an assignment based on a story that you didn't get to finish listening to in class for some reason how would you go about getting that story read to you at home?
If your teacher had recorded the story from earlier that day then you could get on the computer and be a few clicks away from listening to the story again and finishing your homework.
To hear more idea's about how to use podcasts and other new technologies in your classroom click here
Learning about podcasting was very overwhelming at first so I tried to think of an example of how I could use a podcast to better comprehend the purpose.
For some special education students, a disability is shared between themselves and mom or dad. Disabilities with a clear, biological basis, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has no cure and could potentially impact things that we too often take for granted-like asking mom or dad for help with your homework. If you were a child with Autism who could not read and your teacher assigned you an assignment based on a story that you didn't get to finish listening to in class for some reason how would you go about getting that story read to you at home?
If your teacher had recorded the story from earlier that day then you could get on the computer and be a few clicks away from listening to the story again and finishing your homework.
To hear more idea's about how to use podcasts and other new technologies in your classroom click here
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