Friday, July 5, 2013
Chapter 6 -- Building Your Connected Learning Community
Let's continue our exploration of online tools. Choose one of these two options:
1. Choose one of the tools we didn't get to in the last chapter, explore and report back to the group. OR
2. Continue your exploration of the tool you explored in the last chapter. Learn more and report back to the group.
We will save Twitter for Chapter 7. (If you have a Twitter account please tell me your twitter handle in your post this time).
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I am going to continue to look at Evernote. I pinned a link to the Pinterest Board on Evernote and then I found this site today:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/ultimate-simplified-guide-to-use-of.html
This pretty much has all the information in one place and it also has links to tutorial videos for teachers.
I've downloaded Evernote and I'm going to start trying to use it to see if it will be useful for me. I'll report back with what I find out.
I'm continuing to explore Delicious. I have found a difference in formatting on the iPad application than on the website. I have found it more accessible, less time consuming and easier to navigate on the application. I will continue to explore but can tell you now that I like it much better than I did a week or so ago.
ReplyDeleteI tried out Podomatic.com. After signing up for a free account, I tried recording a short audio podcast without an external microphone. It never worked with my computer’s internal mic, so I will have to wait until I get back to Hanover to use my external mic. I did, however, upload a short video from my computer (an outtake from a French 4 project) as another podcast experiment.
ReplyDeleteI had to title the episode and choose a video from my files. The video uploaded at a reasonable pace, about 2-3 minutes for a 32-second video. Once the upload was finished, I had the opportunity to add tags to label it and was asked to rate the content for age-appropriateness. I clicked on “Clean” to certify that there was no inappropriate language or content, making it ok for all ages. I like this feature in particular, since it would be helpful for teachers to know if a podcast from another source is already marked as not all-ages.
Once I finished the tags and content rating, I got a message that said it would take about 16 minutes to finish processing the podcast for publishing: Status: Your episode is being processed for publication.
Your episode is now publishing.
“This will take approximately 16 minutes. We will notify you via email once your episode has been published. When it's ready you can come back to this page to promote it.
If you want to wait here, you can click this link to see if your episode has been published.”
I waited until my email arrived (which was actually less than the estimated time), then fo,lowed the link in my email to check the quality of the finished podcast. It turned out very well, with good sound and picture quality.
http://nhollisswjcs.podomatic.com/entry/2013-07-13T07_59_15-07_00
Once I get my mic issues worked out, I can imagine using this to show pictures of vocabulary words while giving the pronunciation, or using the webcam to record a video lesson for my students. This could be a fun and useful tool!
Nikki I want to try this one. I would love to have my students to do some podcasts about their favorite books.
DeleteNikki Couldn't see the podcast on my Ipad, but it worked great on my new Chromebook.
DeleteThanks for the feedback. It's good to know that it doesn't show up on an IPad. I don't have one, so I couldn't check that out. (My daughter has an IPad, but she is still in NW Indiana, too far away to just randomly have her check it out!)
DeleteAs you mention, I think students would enjoy doing the podcasts, too!
I decided to continue learning about Pinterest and like MaryRose, I have found that the Ipad app works differently than the online site. I am getting better at using Pinterest. I found a couple things that help me do a better job using this tool. First, I never use the main page (it is too messy) to go back to my pinned pages. I use the “my boards” link on the drop down menu so that I can find the pins I want to see again.
ReplyDeleteI have also set up several boards with the goal of being more organized. I set up a couple boards for groups (like our Connected Educator board and one that I will share with the Technology Committee after school starts), some I set up publically and most I made private for my own use (YA literature - for books I find that I want to order, LIbrary ideas and yes...I admit it Recipes).
When I find something on Twitter that I want to pin, I find that it is easier to copy the link and then open Pinterest in Safari (on the web) rather than trying to pin from Twitter or trying to use the Ipad app. The online page gives more tools and is easier to use than the mobile app. The Ipad app works well to read pins, but it isn’t very user friendly when it comes to pinning.
I still have more to learn about Pinterest, but I am convinced that with a little time, Pinterest is a tool that will be useful for both professional and personal use. (again...I have to be careful to not spend too much time on this site...it can be a time eater).
I'm very interested in the Pinterest site. I have several friends who use it, but I think it would be very useful to learn how to apply this in the classroom. I think I could use it to provide students with book lists, author information, or historical information that would help them understand literature. I feel students would also be able to create their own "board collages" for projects. I'm really explore this tool further.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason my account is not working. The above was posted by Jenny Laws.
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