For my podcast, I've decided to create a narrative of a Christmas list. In my family, we always send Christmas lists by the first week of November. It never fails that people wish they could have been more descriptive (to reduce how many exchanges they have to negotiate). So...since I was working on our family lists, I decided to narrate them and send the audio file instead of a typed description. It was fun to work with Audacity. I will play around with it more to do some layering and other fun things.
My experiences with Skype have been all positive. My husband and I used Skype while he was deployed overseas. It was pretty reliable, and he is tech-challenged, so the plug-and-play aspect was very helpful.
For my students, I would likely use podcasts as a brainstorming mechninism as well as the ability for me to give feedback to individual students. Since my students cannot receive audio files (deaf), I would need to keep my responses in video format for podcasts, but the practice working with audio files got me thinking about other ways to use these programs. This Christmas list practice session might lead me into snipits of information for my other websites and sending my voice for particularly special e-mails (rather than lifeless words on a screen).
I couldn't get the autoplay to stop happening (even when changing the code), so here's the link: http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/embedqt/50093
Final Project
16 years ago
Posts
Lisa,
ReplyDeleteGood call on the Christmas lists! I may borrow that idea. :-)
I'm also thinking more about using podcasts as a tool for providing feedback. Right now, I'm emailing students back and forth with feedback on their drafts, and it's still taking a lot of time. I think, if I continue to give margin comments in their drafts, and then audio feedback on the overall drafts and to respond to their questions, it could be a time saver. Then again, I do do a lot of editing in my feedback, and converting to audio might be even more of a hassle. I'll have to keep thinking about that one.
I love all the different ideas to use this tool. I agree that using a podcast to give feedback would be a great. I found it easy to make the podcast, but the technical difficulties still take up time. Maybe once I am more proficient with all this technology it would make it faster.
ReplyDelete