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In my EDM 310 class, I was just introduced to Podcasting. I listened to four different podcast and learned a lot about it. The podcasts that I listened to were
SmartBoard Lessons

KidCast

EdTechtalk

MacBreak Weekly

I learned a lot about podcasting while listening to these podcast.Podcasts can be very informative. In the SmartBoard Lessons podcast, Ben Hazzard and Joan Badger interview different people. In the specific episode that I watched of SmartBoard Lessons, they interviewed a professor named Arnold. He appeared and spoke at a Microsoft Teacher Conference and he is chairman at the Idea Factory. Arnold works with designing human systems and had just recently worked in Singapore. I enjoyed listening to the podcast. However, a disadvantage that a podcast can have is that the people in the podcast can talk a little too much and can easily get off subject which can lead to losing the listeners attention.


Another podcast that I watched was Kid \Cast. I enjoyed listening to this podcast. It was very informative!I listened to episode #50. In this podcast an interview was conducted. Michael Shiet was being interviewed on how to help students develop a sense of argument for their work. Michael claimed that students often think of arguments as scary or as two people screaming and hollering. However, an argument is a lively discussion between two or more people. He claimed that a billboard is an argument because a company is trying to sale you something and they are going to argue why their product is so good. Another type of argument is when you buy clothes. One has to decide whether or not they wasn't to buy the clothing. An argument, he says, governs our everyday life. This podcast was very interesting and made a lot of since to me.


The third podcast I listened to was Edtechtalk. This podcast discussed Google.com. The gadget on Google they discussed was GoogleDocs. They interviewed the product manager and engineer for Google. They gave a lot of information on how to use GoogleDocs. It was said that a lot of teachers these days only allow work to be submitted through GoogleDocs. In the podcast, they said that GoogleDocs has documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Also discussed in the podcast about GoogleDocs was templates. A lot of people did not know what a template is, so they discussed it on the podcast. A template can be personalized or not. But all in all it is a theme for a page.


The last podcast I listened to was MacBreak Weekly. In this podcast, all that they discuss is Macintosh technology. These include: Macintosh computer, the I pod, I Phone 3G5, and anything else made by Apple. Alex Lindsey is the podcaster and he interviews many people. He talks about new releases coming out by Macintosh.


In conclusion, I really learned a lot about podcasting and enjoyed listening to each of the podcast.

Next Generation Learning

The video was very informative. It talked about the many different types of technology being used in schools. By having different types of technology in schools, it allows and makes learning more fun and interesting for students. Not all schools are technologically enhanced, but more and more schools are getting there.


In the video, it talks about a little boy named Henry and how his school is technologically enhanced. For example, in his schools communication is very important. Henry's parents can keep in touch with the teacher about his grades and so forth. Henry can download his homework and upload to the computer to turn it in.


Also, Henry and his friends can play the Wii to help them with exercise. They get more fit and it makes them healthier. They also are allowed to have digital cameras in the classroom, to help their memory in a lesson. They can take pictures of things that they believe is important. By taking these pictures they can remember what they learned later on. I really enjoyed watching this video and it helped me understand that having technology in the classroom can help benefit not just the teachers but the students and parents as well.

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Michael Jackson


(CNN) -- The Los Angeles coroner has concluded preliminarily that singer Michael Jackson died of an overdose of propofol, a powerful sedative he was given to help him sleep, according to court documents released Monday.

Los Angeles' coroner Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran reached that preliminary conclusion after reviewing toxicology results carried out on Jackson's blood, according to a search warrant and affidavit unsealed in Houston, Texas.

The affidavit outlines probable cause for search warrants of the offices of doctors who are believed to have treated Jackson.

The Associated Press is quoting a single law enforcement official, who says the L.A. County Coroner has ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office told CNN they had "no comment" on the report. An LAPD spokesman says the story did not come from their department.

The 32-page warrant said Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal physician, told a detective that he had been treating Jackson for insomnia for six weeks. Murray said each night he gave Jackson 50 mg of propofol, also known as Diprivan, diluted with the anesthetic lidocaine via an intravenous drip.

Worried that Jackson may have been becoming addicted to the drug, the Houston cardiologist said he attempted to wean him from it, putting together combinations of other drugs that succeeded in helping Jackson sleep during the two nights prior to his death.

But on June 25, other drugs failed to do the job, as he recounted to detectives in an hour-by-hour account that was detailed by detective Orlando Martinez of the Los Angeles Police Department:

Vicki Davis

This video I enjoyed very much. It shows me just how much the classroom, students, teachers, and parents can benefit from technology. By having technology in the classroom it makes it easier for students, teachers, and parents to communicate.


Teachers can keep parents and students up to date with their grades and their work. For example, if a student misses a day of class because he or she is sick, the teacher can reach the student through the internet if she cannot reach them through telephone.

Mrs. Davis is a teacher that is trying every possible thing to enhance her students learning abilities. I think she is a wonderful teacher that is very dedicated to helping their students learn as much as they are capable of learning. Computers are becoming a big part of life today and are helping enhance learning abilities all over.

Sir Ken Robinson- Creativity

I found the video to be very informative. I enjoyed listening to Sir Ken Robinson. Not only was he informative, but he made it entertaining as well by telling jokes every now and then. In the video, Sir Ken Robinson talks about creativity in the schools and how we drain out the children's creativity through education. He says," Creativity is as important as literacy and should be treated the same."


He uses two different examples of children's creativity. One includes a little girl drawing a picture of God in class and the other example includes his son when he was four years old in a play. Sir Ken Robinson then says that children are not afraid to take a chance because they are not frightened of being wrong. He says,"If your not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original." I believe this is very true because there would be no creativity if someone in the world was not afraid of being wrong.


He believes that if we do not grow into creativity, we will be educated out of it. In the school system, Sir Ken Robinson says the curriculum is listed from important to least important. It is Mathematics, Language arts, Humanities, and then the Arts. However, he believes that this is wrong and that the Arts should be as important as any of these subjects. He says that after so long we begin to educate our children from the waste up, and then just in the brain.


In the video, Sir Ken Robinson made very valid points on creativity and how it is drained out of our children in the education system. I agree with everything he has based his argument on. When I get to work in the classroom, I will try my best to make sure I allow my students to use their creativity as much as possible. I really enjoyed watching and learning from this film, and would not mind watching more from Sir Ken Robinson.

2008 Latest Edition- Did you know??? 3.0

I thought the video was very informative on a lot of things that I was not aware of. The information was very unique and very interesting to me. I thought it was interesting to know that India has more honor kids than the United States has kids alone. I never knew this and it shows how much we need to work on our children's education. The fact that we are preparing our children for jobs that don't exist is still kind of confusing to me. I don't understand how we can prepare someone for something that does not exist. It just does not seem logical to me. Also preparing them to use technologies that have not bee invented yet is confusing to me for the same reason.


Another point that I saw in the presentation is that a person will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38 (I think). As much as it is hard to believe, this is already becoming quite true in the United States. People change jobs all the time for different reasons, and if a person does not quit or change their job, he or she will probably be laid off sooner or later for economic reasons. Another fact that was said in the presentation is that 1 out of 8 couples met online. This just proves that the internet is becoming a huge social networking device. This may be because of the advertisements on television for sites on the computer such as eharmony.com or match.com.


The internet is growing more and more everyday. For example, there is 31 billion searches done on just Google alone every month. Could you imagine if we counted all of the searches done for each informational source?Not even considering that the search number for Google look-ups was 2.7 billion in 2006. Technology has become more and more advanced over the years as well. For example, the presentation says that the number of text messages sent and received a day is over the planets total population. That is outrageous!


All in all, I really enjoyed watching and learning from this presentation on you tube. It helped me learn a lot about how much technology is growing all over the world.

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Hello!
My Name is Megan Bass and I am a junior at the University of South Alabama. I am majoring in Elementary Education and can not wait to start teaching! I am happily married and I have a beautiful new baby boy named Clay. He was born 10 days ago on August 7th. I love working with children and teaching them new things. Not only can the children learn from me, but I can learn from them as well. There is never a dull moment with children and I enjoy every minute of working with them. I can not wait to learn more about technology, so that it can help me benefit in my profession!