My EDM310 Blog Assignments are now Complete

This class was a great experience!!!!!! We have learned so much, thank you Dr.Strange for all you have done especially helping me with my google spreadsheet!! I wish everyone luck in their teaching future and hope to see yall soon.

Things I have Learned

1. Blogging
2. Podcast
3. Videocast
4. igoogle
5.Foliotek
6. Google Gadgets
7.Google documents, spreadsheet, and presentations

Good and Bad of blogging

Blogging was a good experience for all of us, having a blog to post on different subjects really had us go into depth about certain topics and blogging also introduce us to new things like podcasting and videocats. The good thing about blogging is that you have the opportunity to view your classmates blogs and get their opinion as well, especially if both of you are discussing the same topic.

After reading other blogs I seen that most people enjoyed this activity as well and I notice that a lot of us really enjoyed the podcast activity. I personally enjoyed going back and listening to all of the podcast done by other students. I would say that some things can be changed. For example when doing the podcast assignments let the students decide which one that they would like to response to. Also some topics are not that easy to write four paragraphs on, so try and make it at least two paragraph response.

Other things that could be change is to have the directions more simple, sometimes it was kind of confusing finding the correct location of the topic. Also one post a week would be great as well or at least have the due at the end of the week. Making a due date at the begining of the week or the middle of the week was hard for me at times.

Over all blogging was fun to me and I am thimking about continueing making post to my blogs after this class. It was a fun experience and I hope you continue this in your teaching. This is something great for future teachers.

Electronic Contact

Over the holidays I talk to my friend Aimee, she is now a teacher here in Mobile, Alabama. Aimee graduated from the University of Alabama. Aimee told me that they did not use any thing major while she was in college, they use the same basic power point, email and using the universities website to submit assignments. When I asked Aime about folitek she was clueless, she said that they did not have anything like it while she attended the university. One thing that the y did use was the students would sit in on a class and have to electronically hold a conversation with another student, some what similar to blogging.

Project 7

A group of us was tyring to go to MGM on December 2, 2008, but we did not have much luck. Hannah was our planner after contacting the proper instructor we where unable to attend do to lack of communication, the emails are as followed:
From:Jmn603@jaguar1.usouthal.eduSent: Tuesday Daecmeber 25,2008 12:24pmTo: "Rose, Roger A/MGM" rrose@mcpss.comSent:Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:24 pmSubject Re: RE: Access Lab visitI appreciate you emailing me back but unfortunately the earliest time we can come is 11:00 if this isn't a good time thats fine, just let me knowThank youJohanna Nolan
From: "Rose, Roger A/MGM" Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:27 am Subject: RE: Access Lab visit
To: jmn603@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
I would prefer that you come in the morning if at all possible. If you could come between 7:30 and 10:30 it would be better for you to see that equipment.
From: jmn603@jaguar1.usouthal.edu [ > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:42 AM>
To: Rose, Roger A/MGM> Subject: Access Lab visit
Mr. Rose
I am a student from the University of South Alabama and i have to visit an Access lab for one of my classes. I was wondering if another student and i could come and visit the lab around 12:00 noon next Tuesday December 2, 2008?
Thank you, Johanna Nolan

The South in Black and White

I decided to read about "The South in Black and White", this is the name of one of the courses at Duke University. The course explains how we got where we are today. This class sings gospel songs every week and invite differet story tellers to come in and speak to the class. This class is not offered on campus but is offered at Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Strange Conversation

Honestly, I enjoyed the podcasting it was fun and a great experience. The podcast activity was like an ice breaker for the class, it got the students communicating with each other. Also the podcast made you go above and beyond the research needed to conduct the conversations. This activity provided great information for the students, not only the participants but the listeners as well. A couple of things that I would change would be to let the students come up with their own topic related to a certain subject as long as they have the teacher approval. Also, a little practice or run through would be a great idea to do before actually recording.

For example with my group we were unsure if we were just discussing what we have research to the audience or if we were actually holding a conversation with each other, which we did slowly began a discussion about the topics we were assign to research. Another suggestion would be to have all participants speak loud and clearly into the microphone and provide a larger space for the people recording at the time so the voices will travel the distance to the microphone. Overall I thought this activity was great and I would suggest that you continue with "Strange Conversations"

I personally thought that I sounded pretty weird at first because I was so nervous, but after listening to my group's entire podcast I think we all did it pretty good. I really hope you continue this activity along with the video cast because I would love to keep up with them