Thursday, June 19, 2008

Session 6: Podcasts and Vodcasts

I know teachers at my school that would love to have the ability to do podcasting and videocasting in their classrooms. I think it would be fun to have students do podcasts or vodcasts on their favorite books as they get excited about reading.

Web 2.0 Camp was the BEST! I love the TeacherTube and Atomic Learning links - I learned so much! I loved the time to create accounts and experiment with RSS, blogs, wikis, flickr, avatars, and del.icio.us. The time to try out these concepts really helps us gain confidence with trying something new and outside our comfort zones. I can't wait to use del.icio.us, RSS, bloging, flickr and wikis immediately at home and hopefully at school as well. I really would like to have access to everything at school because I think the students and teachers will really benefit from all of the Web 2.0 tools.

I hope we can meet as a group next summer to review and extend the Web 2.0 concepts we are able to try throughout the year. A Web 2.0 Reunion Camp would really encourage collaboration and encourage the discussion of our strengths and weaknesses with the concepts we are able to implement on our campuses with various age levels of students.

2 comments:

mwillis said...

I love the idea of a Web 2.0 Reunion next summer. I hope all of us will continue to add to our personal blogs and to each others.

Lifelong Learner said...

These tools really are wonderful. I look forward to seeing how you will use them with your students and I know that you will find a way to use them and share them with your teachers.

I'm glad you like the camp and felt that it was worthwhile. I will be advocating for access at school. You can help the cause by continuing to blog about your experiences. The more we use these tools and find practical, instructional uses for them, the sooner they will be available. Students and teachers do need to be able to use the Web 2.0 tools.

I love the idea of a
Web 2.0 reunion. We also need to keep blogging about our experiences throughout the year. Through the blog or the wiki we can collaborate and share our successes and challenges throughout the year. This would also give us a wonderful place to start our Web 2.0 reunion.