Well, here is the design document so far. It’s been a lot of work, but interesting.
Too bad I decided to do something where all the materials had to be created from scratch AND I couldn’t count on an instructor to do parts of it!!!
Progress on the materials so far.
Lesson 1 stuff: I have written the document. I have made the podcast to go with it. I have written the questions for the feedback form and submitted them to one of our IT people who will turn it into a form that can be completed through our email client. I have created the conference in the email client and posted the stuff so far.
Lesson 2: I have installed a version of Camtasia and am working on a Camtasia demo of how to download and install iTunes. The narration for that remains to be done. I have also done the screen capture part of how to use iTunes to find and subscribe to podcasts. Again, the narration still must be recorded for that part….
Lessons 3 and 4: Still to Do.
Also, I have made arrangements for the materials to be posted and an email invitation sent to all teachers on Monday. At last a start on people interacting with the materials. I hope the feedback we get on it from teachers is good. Whew…. So much to do. Deadlines looming.
The documents so far are posted here….
October 20, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Hi… I’m really sorry for being such a bad partner for this last two weeks. Sorry for being so behind. First let me tell you that I really like you idea of promoting the concept and use of podcast by teacher. I really think it is a great tool. I’ve been using vodcasts with my bilingual students for vocabulary building.
I like that you are sustaining your project in the constructionist theory of learning. Creating a podcasts is a great way to built knowledge and skills. Another key element that I see you are addressing is the “fear of technology” expressed by many new and seasoned teachers alike. This is something that has to be tackle first in order to create a better environment for exploration and learning. You have a very detailed and very well designed students’ expectations that aligned very in a great way with your activities.
In the activities I see that you allocate some time to model the use of podcast in the classroom and this is very important because for many teachers is really hard to see how to use this technology. Some of them have many years of doing the same and for them that the best way to do it. They cannot see how this change could be sometimes more effective in certain areas or for certain objectives.