This Week in Photography. Episode 104 Penguins :)

This Podcast seemed very well edited, the guest sound clear and understandable, although many guest are hard to keep up with. I am not very interested in different cameras or photography lingo either. I really did not enjoy this Podcast either. I think I am going back to the teaching Podcast to learn some more about how I can be a better student and teacher!!!

Overall on the Podcast, its difficult to listen to Podcast that have no interest that the listener does. I loved listening to the Podcast on education. They are great ways to get some awesome lectures without having to be wherever the lecture is given!

MacBreak Weekly, The Case Against Apple.

This Podcast started like one of the first ones, like a radio talk show. They are talking about travel and languages, not about Apple or Macintosh. As they pose the question about the new I Tunes, you can't understand much of the lingo, but most people listening to the Podcast would understand what they were talking about. When they start talking about the guy having the love affair with Apple, that's strange. He admits to overspending and overbuying on his Apple products. Honestly I was not very interested in this Podcast. I love my I Touch, but I am a PC kind of girl...

EdTech Talk... Googledocs. WHAT?

I felt like all these people discussing Googledocs was AWFUL! The editing was so incomplete and and there were too many voices and not enough explanations of what they were saying about Googledocs. They discussed the same thing about templates for a long time. It was hard to understand a lot of what they were saying to the audience, they were talking too fast on this one. I did like what was said and it made me realize there is more than just word documents on Googledocs, but it was difficult to hear any more information.

Connect Learning Episode 96

I loved this Podcast. I cannot wait to attend teacher workshops. I was truly interested in what David Warwick had to talk about with real teachers. This kind of Podcast makes people want to listen instead of fast-forward until the good stuff. I thought their discussion on how students today are already familiar with all these forms of technology. It is not technology to them, it's just a means of communication and a way to gain new information. I agree with the second teacher who spoke who talked about her third, fourth, and fifth graders who would be exited to express themselves on a blog or website compared to on pen and paper. I thought that also, this would help with the attendance, or at least give students who are absent, with an excused absence could make up their work easier. Children love to be involved and for their work to be displayed. Knowing that their work is going to be on the Internet for everyone to view would make them work slightly harder on some projects...

Kid Cast Episode 62 Video Podcasting "VodCast"...

Dan in this podcast was slightly annoying. He was discussing Video Podcast, and he went off on how some podcasters labeled video cast as "vodcasting" and he went on about that for about five minutes. Once he got on the topic of pros and cons of Video casting, he made some good points for people trying to decide. He suggested that video podcasting was not a step up of Podcast, but users need to use which media they feel could help their subject matter and audience. He pointed out that users might want to use video casting if they are interviewing a subject and emotions are shown that cannot be heard in their voice. Also if you need a model or demonstration to explain a difficult subject. If your audience primarily uses a TV, computer, or ITouch, video casting would be a better option than an audio cast. For teachers he suggested that if students needed to work on using body language to express their ideas. Overall he said that users should not worry about stepping up, but more about which media works best for your type of Podcast.

Smart Board Lesson Podcast

On this podcast, I really didn't enjoy it. I had to fast forward through the "radio talk show" beginning. I really don't care about where they went this week and what they are doing with their lives. I feel like if I subscribe to an Education Podcast I want my information about the topic or ideas without 10 minutes of life stories, but once I fast forwarded to some education ideas, there were some good ideas. I liked the idea on the math videos from Harvard. After a student has grasped the math concept, to reinforce it with clips from some commonly known movies is genius. Students want to be engaged with ideas and things they can relate to. Also introducing students to IPOD touches as a learning tool is awesome. I have one and I love it! I use my ITouch for not only music and videos, but the applications are amazing! There are fun ones and educational ones. That's how I learned to play chess! And if you can buy one application for the single rate and sync it to all the students ITouches, it would be very cheap. The only expense would be damage. Students are destructive, that's why cell phones are so tough these days.

Sir Ken Robinson

I believe Mr. Robinson had an interesting perspective on creativity in schools. I agree with his statement that creativity should be as important as literacy. Without creativity there is no motivation to learn. It would all be text book and lecture. I can relate to the idea that the reason many students no longer flourish in their creative self is from the fear of being wrong. Even from my first few years as a student, I can recall almost every question having a right or wrong answer. If you guessed the right answer you were rewarded, just as if you guessed the wrong there was no reward, a shame of sorts for being wrong. In our classrooms today, from middle school to college, you see so few students posing questions because they are in fear of being wrong or looking like an idiot. Not only is this fear, that is being placed at a young age crushing creativity it is also taking its toll on curiosity. More than ever you can see how education is shaped by industry; by what industries are available and what industry pays the most. The story of the choreographer who works with Andrew Lloyd Weber is inspiring. Finding a doctor or teacher or parent who would give, let alone accept, the idea of putting an "ADHD" student in a dance class is slim to none in our society. The norm for today would have been a prescription of Ritalin. With the economy and the way our society is today, the idea that a college degree will not grantee a job is terrifying, but true. Now students are having to pay more and earn a higher level of education just to ensure a job in their field. But with creative ideas employed in our daily lives and careers that would set us apart. It is only figuring out how to reverse our own fear of being wrong and release our inner creativity, as well as help to nourish the creativity of our future students, so they, also, can be prepared.

Mr. Winkle Wakes...

This movie was so true! If we studied school a hundred years ago and looked at our schools today, little would be different. If anything the only difference would be the architecture of the buildings and the information being shared, but the method of the teacher student relationship of receiving information would be sadly, lecture and notes, maybe a documentary from when VHS was still in use. Hopefully as a teacher I will be able to not follow in the footsteps of teacher I have had before, but use the resources that I know are available to get my students genuinely interesting in what I have to teach them.

2008 Did You Know...

This clip was insane and eye opening! There was so much information that relates to becoming a teacher, really any profession, that students are preparing to enter. The fact India has 25% of there population with the highest IQ overcomes the amount of people in the United States! We think we, as Americans, are ahead of the rest of the world in technology and ideas, but boy, are we wrong! I find it slightly intimidating but motivating to know that the top ten in demand jobs were not in existence in 2004, and the fact we are training our students, and we are being trained, to do something that will be out-of-date, by the time we enter our profession! I can relate to the statistic that today's learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age 38. I am 19, and I have had about six jobs so far. WOW! The fact one in eight couples last year met online is crazy to fathom! What did they do before the Internet?! When I actually sit down to think about it, the fact that the amount of text messages sent and received everyday is greater than the population of the world, doesn't seem as crazy considering how much I do text, but the population of the WORLD? That's almost seven billion text EVERYDAY! The idea that a weeks worth of New York's Time's is more information than a person would come across in a whole lifetime in the eighteenth century makes me feel very blessed, but yet still so uninformed! I have access to at least one New York Times paper a week, yet I do not take advantage of my resources that surround me.

The end of the video would probably scare most students preparing for a degree, but as a teacher I find it motivating and encouraging. Although I will constantly have to be learning and expanding my teaching abilities, I find the idea of technology as a way to reach my students and make my classes fun and interesting, as well as interactive.

About Me

My name is Krystle Riner. I am a sophomore here at South, and I am studying Secondary Education and Social Science. I graduated from Theodore High School here in Mobile. I am a lifeguard here on campus, as well as a waitress at Cheeburger Cheeburger, which has amazing food!! I love to read, play around online like Facebook and such, play volleyball, swim, and spend time with my friends and family. I am currently leading a middle school girl's Bible study and an active member of my college group at Government Street Baptist. I can't wait to become a teacher and start my career! That's about all...

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