iTunes Podcast

It took me awhile to get adapted to the iTunes setup. I've been using Microsoft Zune program for a couple of years and have never used iTunes. After I broke the learning curve it was easy to navigate. iTunes offers a lot more podcast and learning materials.

I enjoyed listening to some of the podcast. Some were really good but some of them were rather boring and hard to listen to. The smartboard lessons podcast was one that I did not really care for. The podcast did not seem to be very structured and was hard to listen to. I did not make it very far into the podcast before I went to another.

One of the podcast that I did find interesting was the kidcast podcast. He compared the pro's and con's to video and audio podcast. I thought that this was helpful since we are going to be doing this in the class this year.

Did You Know 4.0

I thought this was a interesting video. It showed a lot of facts on the rapid changes in technology that Dr. Strange has been talking about in class. I can believe that the average teen send 2,272 text a month because my little brother sends about 9,000 a month. Another thing that I found interesting is that 95% of all songs downloaded are not payed for. This makes me wonder why I am paying for mine. Over all I liked the video. I did think that the video moved a little to fast making it harder to read.

Comments4Kids

I enjoyed this assignment. Being able to read and comment on students work that are half way around the world was very cool. I am sure that they also enjoy having people comment on their blogs as well. The kids that I read seemed to be very smart and most of their blogs were very well written. I look forward to doing this again.

Video in the Classroom Intro

I thought the video was interesting. Mr. Needleman seems to be a very innovative teacher. I am sure that the children enjoy his classes and do not realize that they are learning as well.