Podcasting

This week our lessons have been about podcasting.  I have been using Audacity in my AP classroom, but I learned a lot more about it this week.  I feel much more confident about my ability to produce something that I can really use with it in the future.  I can also direct my students to use it correctly to get the result I have been wanting.  I'm now thinking about how I can combine blogging and podcasting to have the students review each other's speaking samples as well as writing.

I am also finding new uses for other tools that we are learning about such as wikis.  I just hope I can find the time and energy to actually utilize everything I'm learning!  I want to set up collaborative spaces for teachers throughout our district and within my department for sharing lesson plans and resources.

I am not happy with the fact that it feels like I am often doing my Tech homework at the last minute.  I haven't really come down to the wire with anything this semester, but it just seems that the weekends are my best times to really concentrate on the work for this class.  I think that I work better when I know I will have a "chunk" of time to devote to something rather than just a few minutes here or there.  I AM getting everything finished, and more importantly, I am learning so much and actually using what I am learning.  This is exactly how I hoped I would feel about graduate school when I decided to begin my master's after almost 20 years of teaching.