Technology Wonderings

After subscribing and listening to 3 different podcasts, please reflect…What podcasts did you listen to?

What makes a podcast interesting (or not) to listen to?
In what ways could we use podcasts at school?

If you were going to record something for others to listen to, what should you do or include to make it interesting for the listener?

This might be a little redundant from my post from yesterday so please forgive me. My final project for the R/W web course is my blog. I will use it in many ways:
1. As a conversation/discussion tool with my students
2. As staff development for myself
3. To communicate & share information/resources with my staff

Each of these is a different form of collaboration that I look forward to being part of. I hope that blogging with my students will force me to “let go” more and really let the magic happen.

This week I’ve spent a lot of time customizing my blog with some cool features-links to my del.icio.us account, recommended reading and bloglines account, among others. In doing this, I’ve learned how to use each of these different web 2.0 tools. I’m excited to have all of these tools in one place on my blog. It is going to make it easier for others to interact with my resources but also easy for me to keep things updated b/c everything is in one place.

I’ve really enjoying working with everyone in the class. It is always nice to interact with people who are willing to take risks and be a little uncomfortable because it usually leads to really powerful learning. I look forward to continuing our conversations online! ~Stephanie.

I know, I know…It is Thursday and this is my first “project” post. It’s just that I haven’t really been able to decide what I want my project to be. I have learned so much this week:
-how to customize my blog w/widgets and sidebars and code
-del.icio.us and social bookmarking and tagging and networks
-setting up an amazon store to get a personalized reading list (and maybe make a little money at it!)
-google tools for teachers (mind maps, my maps, docs, photos, etc)
-bloglines to access and read lots of feeds in one place and then make my acct public through my blog

All this stuff is accessible through my blog so I guess my project is going to be communicating in web 2.0 ways through my blog. It has been really nice to be a part of this class and have time and assignments that force me (you didn’t have to twist my arm too hard) to explore tools that I’ve heard of or worked with a little but haven’t had a full understanding of until now. The reading has been great and helped me think of new ways for my kids to work with each other and with others across the world.

All good stuff. My brain is full and am trying to sort it all out and figure the implications on my teaching.