Podcast Reflection #12: iPad; Smoke and Mirrors?

       In this podcast, "The Ipad; Real Potential or Smoke and Mirrors?" Kevin Honeycutt is “carpooling” Tim Holt. The two of them are discussing administrators and collaboration in the workplace. Tim brings up the good point of how every single career has to deal with collaboration. Even computer programers he states. I enjoyed the topic of how when someone gets hired, even educators, people stick with that career and never network outside of it. Today, through technology twitter, delicious, etc. all can be great resources for teachers.

Podcast Reflection #11: Learning Networks

       EdTechWeekly is a great resource because it always has multiple perspectives and people. This podcast, "Learning Networks: PLEs, Free vs Owned, Google Apps", has a couple different people discussing different resources used in the classrooms and used in education. In this specific podcast they talk about their new layout for their talk show, which includes more specific links about what they are talking about and how they are having guest speakers now. They talk about delicious tags, and how resourceful educational technology tags are. I believe a teacher could use delicious as a great resource by checking for tags. In this podcast, they all talk about different resources on the internet that can be helpful for a teacher or in educational technology. The one link I thought was interesting was PLENK. PLENK stands for personal learning environments network and knowledge. It is basically an online course that could be a great resource for a teacher. In the course the “student” does not have to remember a whole bunch of things for the course, but rather do many activities that are based on the web. It would be a great resource for a teacher because it teaches them things that are out there and it is a flexible course that could be very useful.

Podcast Reflection #10: The DIY Episode

        This is my first time listening to "The Tech Chicks"! In this podcast, the tech chicks first talk about their tech club. Tech club is at one of their schools which is bases off an application process. Students apply to be a part of the club to get a learning experience with technology. The two women give tips and tricks for teaching 21st century students using 21st century skills. This is called the DIY episode because it's the Do it Yourself episode. One of the interesting resources they talk about is the microscope for the iphone. If you buy a microscope and attach it to the case it gets a x45 magnification. Its a quick way to take a picture and magnify things.

Podcast Reflection #9: Online Conference Keynote Address

 In this online conference, the keynote speaker Dean Shareski discusses the ideas of sharing in education. He uses a quote that sharing is our job. He talks about programs like delicious, and says sharing is one of the best tools teachers can use. It’s free for everyone to see.  Sharing beyond our classroom is moving to “nice to do” to “necessary to do”. I completely agree with this statement. I understand why some people don’t want to teachers to steal their ideas but if it can help students why wouldn’t you share with other teachers? This class already has taught me so many things about teaching and using resources on the internet. Teachers are going to be continually adding information on the internet and the resources are soon going to be endless. Shareski is not only discussing things to put on the website; he has a math teacher in California discusses sharing tools he uses. He uses a blog, and he receives advice from other teachers through that. I really enjoyed this online conference. Shareski made several valid points about sharing on the internet and how important it is for educators.