Reflection Week 02
Wiki Link
Podcast Link
Google Collaborative Document Link
Podcasting gives normal people a voice. Moreover, YouTube and other hosting websites provide the medium for voices to be heard. This week’s assignment gave me the opportunity to review skills that I had obtained over the years of training at Lumberton ISD. I have created several podcasts in the past and believe that the power that it holds for students is worth the time investments in the classroom. It “is yet another way for them to be creating and contributing ideas to a larger conversation, and it’s a way of archiving that contribution for audiences to use” (Richardson, 2010, p. 115). Once students are comfortable with recording their voices and creating simple podcasts it is an easy transition to move them into enhanced podcasts using pictures or video with their voice recordings. One important piece of information that students need to be aware of is file extensions. Click here for a link to file extension information.
Windows Movie Maker is the software application I chose for this week’s assignment. After looking at other software applications, this seemed a logical choice for me because I am familiar with the program and the basic functions that allow users to import pictures as well as capture video from a camera. Many tutorials on Windows Movie Maker are available and watching them provided information about this application that I did not know existed. I was pleasantly surprised to learn how to edit video within the middle of a clip. This small bit of information is so powerful and very easy to apply. In the future, I plan to use the knowledge gained to train other teachers on the power of podcasting. One example of how podcasting could be used in the classroom is when teachers use them to record lessons or important parts of lessons and publish those parts on their websites for students to listen to from home. The ultimate goal would be for teachers to become so familiar with the process that they allow their students to podcast and publish their work. Garrison (1999) states, “Integrating media production in your curriculum can help you find new access to students and help them find new access to the material” (p.1).
Garrison, A. (1999, Winter). Video basics and production projects for the classroom. Center For Media Literacy. Retrieved November 20, 2011, from http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article3.html
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful Web tools for classrooms (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin.
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