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Teachers connecting # 11 Year end ideas
The first 10 min of this blog were basically pointless. They didn't really get into much. Ben was talking about his trip to Ottowa, and about Obama cookies in the market. Towards the end of the first 10 minutes they were talking about Math movies, which I thought was a good idea. There are different well known movies that have information about mathmatics in them. Mathmovies.com shows clips of these movies to get the students interested in the topic you're teaching that a specific lesson.

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Dan Schmit
In this podcast, Mr. Schmit gave some reasons why video podcasting "vodcasting" is better than just audio podcasts. Video podcasts, of course, give visuals rather than just sounds. You can see the emotion in the face when you could miss that if you were just listening to voices. It also shows the body language behind the speech. Video podcast are also good for demonstrations, making it easier to explain with visuals rather than just audible instructions.

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David Warlick Episode 91

Some of the representatives attending the podcast seminar were concerned about young children being posted with their names and pictures, and being indentifiable online. Warlick and another rep. suggests that for young children creating their own podcasts should probably stick to audio podcast. He also suggested that they should review and use their acceptable use policies. They also talked about how podcasting could improve their jobs, here are some responses. Use them to help "sell" books, by talking them up and drawing in readers. We could have podcasts of spanish translations of books for ESL students. Children can use podcasts to express themselves. They could be used to interview people in the community.

This week in Photography. Alex decides on a camera
The last one I listened to, I didn't like so much. I thought I would because it was about photography and I enjoy taking pictures. But they just talked about this alex character picking out a new camera and it wasn't very interesting...