27/7/10

www.flickr.com This program is another yahoo mail account association. This is a time consuming activity, best set for a project or home work. This program is a type of photo organiser that you can share with the world or have personalise products made from like calenders, cards, collages etc from but these all cost you money. It would be a useful tool for an arts class maybe, or projects that the student had to share with others. Personally, I don't like this program and I would not use it for any classwork activities. Next

Pod casting: I found this to be a teaching tool with an endless array of student involvement. From a simple instruction giving program, to a complete on site how to guide for what ever you wanted. I tried a pod cast for myself at my podcast but it is a program that you need supportive equipment for, like video cameras and or voice recorders, if you can get them for your class you can have alot of interactive fun with them. As for web sites for pod casting I tried
www.podomatic.com . It is good for creating your own voice podcast and publishing it on line, but I don't like the search engine for other podcast topics, it is either hard to find what you want or it is over crowded with European rubbish.

I like the look of www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/rss/podcasting.html
for finding useful podcast topics that the students can use for projects or just useful information that a teacher can use for class.


Digital photos: this would have to be one of the greatest teaching tools available to teachers everywhere, yes it requires the use of a digital camera which almost every student has in their mobil phones these days anyway. So much can be expanded on or expressed or discovered when using a digital image in your lesson plan. Being able to show students what you are talking about. You may not have taken the photo yourself, but you can bet that on he internet, somebody else already has. And depending on the copy write laws attached to that image you can generally use it for your class.

Students can use these digital pictures to add extra depth to their assignments or how-to projects, art work, etc. These images can be uploaded to almost every other program or tool used on the internet. So for a teaching tool and for a student project tool, this should be used and expanded on and taught to students that have never used a digital camera before.