This week, we actually set up a Cover It Live blog to cover Winter Carnival, and Hannah got that rolling during during the Quiz Bowl & Lip Sync. Check it out, vote on the polls, and comment on the viability of this as a form of communication. How can live blogging be used where it really could be useful? Look at some of the live coverage of the attacks on Mumbai. Many people used Cover It Live to show up to the minute coverage that perhaps trumped some of the news reports because these people were able to be in the middle and doing coverage. How could this application be used within education so live blogging would be valuable?
The podcasting crew finalized their work, and presented their work. If you worked within this group, what have you learned about podcasting as a whole? Do you think this could be used successfully within the classroom? What would make it successful? What would be the drawbacks? Why wouldn't it possibly work here @ WHS? What advice would you give, based on what you know, to successfully integrate podcasting? Even if you weren't a part of this group, you should respond to the last few questions.
Over break, I want you to go and check out VoiceThread . This will be our next form of communication to explore. As well, I want you all to set up Twitter accounts. We will be looking to see how this can be used to your advantage as a student and later, as a professional. While you're playing online over break, I want you to revisit Ning. Search through the available social networks on this site, and see if any are worth us joining as a group.
You need to get people to join our discussions on the We're Curious blog, the Deep Thought vlog, and the Wiki for the world. These are starting to become populated, but we need more people to engage in the conversation. Get out there, and get people engaged!!!
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I think that the cover-it-live blog is a really cool way to communicate over the internet. It is instant blogging, that is crazy!! If you thought blogging was amazing, just wait until you instant blog, it is awesome! But the good thing about live blogging is that you can get up to date information and keep in constant contact with the creator of the blog. But this week has been spent a lot on working on the podcasting presentation. I did some research, helped make the powerpoint and created some of the graphs. It took a lot of time to put everything together and get it ready for the presentation, but we had kind of a weird week last week because of winter carnival and all so that would explain it. But I think that the presentation will enlighten the teachers and make it so that ipods are able to be used in school. But I got to admit I just wanted to get ipods used in school so that I could listen to music but after researching during this project I learned that podcasting can be very useful so now I want ipods in school not just for listening to music but for the podcasts because if the teachers put lectures on podcasts it would be a big help to me.
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