100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better.
In this article by Valene, she talks about the many ways to use an iPod other than listening to music. There are tons of other uses for an iPod and a lot of them are educational. First off iPods have many tutorials on their programs to help you understand and learn skills on the iPod better. There are many applications, software, and continuing education tools on an iPod. For educational purposes there are many programs to upload study guides, listen to audio books, learning support, and classroom help. There are many applications that can help with writing, converting DVDs, keeping up with notes, and much more. This article does a great job in showing how iPods can be educational as well are recreational.
The Education Podcasting Network
The Education Podcasting Network is a website to explore ideas of 21st century teaching. This site suggests the idea of podcasting to improve teaching methods. It helps explain to you what a podcast is and the benefits of it as well. It also explains how to upload a podcast on the site and how to search for one. The Educational Podcasting Network offers from 3 to over 150 podcasts for all subjects. The website also breaks down podcasts in different grade school levels. I think the more teachers use this site the more popular podcasting within education will be.
Langwiches
On the website Langwiches, there are many posts that encourage 21st century learning like The Education Podcasting Network. Although, this site doesn’t focus on just podcasting, it shows videos and articles on twitter, Skype, blogging, and audio books. Langwiches also shows many educational apps available on iPads for kids. For example, there is a Book Creator App. I think this is a great app for kids to use; it encourages them to be creative and come up with their own stories. After creating your story you can share it with other friends, family, and classmates. I think that this app will help with encouraging reading among the younger age groups. Many kids these days don’t like to read as much but, if they can use an iPad or any other technology device I think that will definitely spark their interest.
Hey Courtney! Thanks for blogging about these three podcast websites. I actually did three completely different ones so it was good to read about some of the others. After reading your posts about these websites it encouraged me to check them out in a little more detail. I really liked what you had to say about the Book Creator app, sounds fun. Anyway, good luck with everything we're having to do in this class! Check out my blog if you want to read a little about what some of the other podcast websites were about.
ReplyDeleteI hope these assignments helped in your preparation for your podcast.
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