- Oliver, R. (1999). Exploring strategies for online teaching and learning. Distance Education 20(2), p.240-254
- Ten Principles to Active Learning (http://www.idecorp.com/teacher/documents/dowling_002.pdf)
Two areas in which were the emphasis of the lesson were vodcasting and podcasting. Vodcasting is the trasmission of videos and podcating is the transmission of audio.
Let's unravel podcasting. We were required to create an audio file using a voice recorder then upload this onto the computer then onto www.mypodcasts.com. This program is good to use as it allows any of you friends to listen to all of the new postings on your account. This could be a great tool in communicating with those overseas. My own podcast account URL is http://yidtodareistodo.mypodcast.com/index.html.
This technology could be useful in a classroom as it might be beficial to use in a group project. Recording everything that happened in the group and who did what could be a way to encorporate technology into a science, english or whatever unit to create a transdiciplinary unit; as identified to be important by Oliver through the use of quality resources to create authentic tasks (1999).
The next area which was explored was vodcasting. In groups we created a video using Movie Maker which encorporated both pictures and sound then uploaded it into our blogs. I found movie maker to be quite simple to use as I have previously used it at school. But for someone who hasn't used the program before, the culmination of combining images with sound along with uploading it onto our blog would be a difficult task. I believe that the whole idea of vodcasting is an effective way to provide tutorials for those who are visual learners along with learners that benefit from being told instructions. Within this, if the image weren't quite crystal clear or you wanted to make more alterations to the image, you can go to www.picnik.com which is a program that has various editing features to improve your images.
After the vodcast has been uploded, a program called feedburner allows all that are friends to view and download the video onto their ipod through itunes. Just another way to keep connected to others.
A follow on from this, www.voki.com is simply a program that allows you to create an avatar in which can be placed on your site to provide information. This tools is great for teachers to place on sites to provide an interactive tool in giving the steps to complete a task. The theorist, Mr Oliver believes in his Learning Design Framework that this type of tool is important for learning as mulitmodal resources must be used to scaffold learning in authentic and complex ways (1999).
Finally we covered two fun little programs: www.wordle.net and tagcrowd.com. This allows words to be placed in a form and once published, these words come up in an abstract way with the words appearing more times in the form to be larger. I have seen this tool being used for helping spelling where the larger words are the ones that the students have difficulty with. The Active Learning Framework identifies that "technology is used as a tool and a resource to support learning" (Ten Principles to Active Learning). As stated previously this technology supports learning through these specifications. Another way this could be used is for summarising pieces of work to identify the overarching idea of the text.
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