Podcasting, audio and video would all be really useful in a journalism classroom. Students need to be familiar with how to edit audio and video if they are producing daily or weekly announcements. Podcasts could be used as another teaching tool. Nothing really worries me about podcasts, although the potential for inappropriate content is there. I would just make sure to preview any outside media before showing it to my students.
CyberJournalist.Net is a great site I found that has links to journalists personal blogs. Some are freelance writers; some are retired columnists; there's a wide range of contributors. This site also has lists of other blogs belonging to organizations such as MSNBC and USA Today.
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has podcasts related to journalism and new media, as well as the profession in general. These would be great to share with a class to show them how the field of journalism is rapidly changing.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Week 1
Looking at this list of blogs was exhausting! It was hard to really get a feel for what each blog was about, so I picked three pretty random ones. The first one was http://ifbeesarefew.blogspot.com/. It was very simple, but contained a lot of information about blogging as a whole and how new media will affect how we teach. I don't know if I would have a blog like this because I don't often sit and ponder how the internet will affect my life, but I realize how important a tool it can be for education. This is definitely a blog for teachers interested in technology, but it was still fairly entertaining to read.
http://teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com/ was the second blog I visited. The name pretty much says what it's all about. The blogger gave a ton of helpful hints on how to teach students who struggled, but made sure to point out that all students could benefit from the ideas. This was a blog I could read often to get new ideas for different learners. I could also recommend it to students so they could check out different ways to study on their own.
http://seventhirtyblues.blogspot.com/ was the last blog I visited, and it was a classroom blog from a high school class. The last posts were from the graduating class of 2006, so it was a little dated, but I still liked the idea. Seniors were saying their good-byes to friends and family and telling what their plans were for the future. In a high school situation, I could see a blog being a great tool for discussions and extending the class period. There was nothing worse than getting into a great discussion and having the bell ring! This would allow for more time. However, it could potentially give students a forum to express ideas they normally would not in a face-to-face discussion. As long as it could be moderated by the teacher, I think having a class blog would be a great tool.
http://teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com/ was the second blog I visited. The name pretty much says what it's all about. The blogger gave a ton of helpful hints on how to teach students who struggled, but made sure to point out that all students could benefit from the ideas. This was a blog I could read often to get new ideas for different learners. I could also recommend it to students so they could check out different ways to study on their own.
http://seventhirtyblues.blogspot.com/ was the last blog I visited, and it was a classroom blog from a high school class. The last posts were from the graduating class of 2006, so it was a little dated, but I still liked the idea. Seniors were saying their good-byes to friends and family and telling what their plans were for the future. In a high school situation, I could see a blog being a great tool for discussions and extending the class period. There was nothing worse than getting into a great discussion and having the bell ring! This would allow for more time. However, it could potentially give students a forum to express ideas they normally would not in a face-to-face discussion. As long as it could be moderated by the teacher, I think having a class blog would be a great tool.
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