Imaginative Constructs » podcast http://ihancock.edublogs.org Education and Other Ponderings Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:06:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 What TED said! http://ihancock.edublogs.org/2007/11/11/what-ted-said/ http://ihancock.edublogs.org/2007/11/11/what-ted-said/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:03:59 +0000 ihancock http://ihancock.edublogs.org/2007/11/11/what-ted-said/ I’ve been spending my weekend watching TED online. I don’t know if you know TED but it is the online fixture of the conference which is explained as “standing for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds.” Through the website, the conference organizers are striving to share the ideas and thoughts of several prominent thinkers. Now, if you are anything like me, you love to spend time on the computer but your wife’s not so crazy about the lack of quality cuddling time. Here is where this site gets full marks: these are videos you can share with your wife! Though you are still spending time on the computer, your wife won’t mind because the videos themselves are relevant, interesting and entertaining. She’ll want to watch them with you!!!! Now you can do both of the things you love to do, all at the same time and, as a bonus, you’re learning lots of great things!

Just as a teaser, here is one of the videos on education which is very relevant to where our education system needs to go.

]]> http://ihancock.edublogs.org/2007/11/11/what-ted-said/feed/ 0 My First Podcast http://ihancock.edublogs.org/2007/07/10/my-first-podcast/ http://ihancock.edublogs.org/2007/07/10/my-first-podcast/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:58:16 +0000 ihancock http://ihancock.edublogs.org/2007/07/10/my-first-podcast/ This is my first podcast. It’s a little rough but a good first attempt using Voicethread. There are some things I would do differently next time like integrating the pictures better. However, it was very easy to use and definitely useful to use with my class for literature circles or science/social projects. I wish it had a little more in the way of editing but as I get more used to the site these things could get smoothed out. I really appreciated the tips for blogging discussed in our last class – namely, keeping the presentation to 2-10 minutes, modulating the voice, using music buffers at the beginning and end of the presentation and using recall at the end of the presentation to review the information provided.


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