The technology for today's tutorial are the use of video, podcast, recorders, movie maker, feedburner, vodcasts and possibilities where these can be used in the classroom.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/WCof
http://www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome
The course is set up to cram a maximum amount of information into a small amount of space. This would be ok if all the participants in the course had a high level of competency in computer skills however that is not the case. I am personally grateful to have a mentor guiding my learning but I find even that is not enough at times.
To the uses of this technology within the classroom, I can see the benefit for knowing about programs that are available, however, personal experience has shown me that until you have a need to utilise the programs then there is little benefit to this process. With the technological advances far out weighing the learnt experiences now, this data will be out of date by the time we use it in the classroom and new programs will be needed for the tasks. It does appear that similar features go across the different tools though. I feel the meta language is an area that could be expanded upon and the applications for these tools investigate as well as the practice of these tools consolidated.
My group in Professional Skills is utilising some of these tools. We have a wiki and a web page started and with the knowledge of pod casts could possibly be incorporated into the web page. In my prac teaching environment I would like to see the visual art diary entries completed online from the home environment and photographic information of artworks made into movies for verification at moderation. The use of video within the classroom is a very powerful tool.
All in all the learning journey for this unit is giving me confidence to use new technology but has also shown me that I have a large pot of ICT knowledge already within my resources.
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