NM TIE Podcasting Workshop

I'm helping Bethany today at the NM TIE conference with her podcasting workshop. We started by investigating iTunes and EPN - http://epnweb.org.

Right away, some folks found a couple of very cool things:

• Tamara found Willow Web, an elementary podcast show at EPN and she said she listened to elementary students expressing their knowledge about the constitution in authentic way to an audience of their peers (and a global audience).
• Jim noted that the second language podcasts, specifically the French ones, at EPN were just like taking a class.
• Gail noted that in the general topics of EPN, there were 137 podcasts for English and 9 for math...

Then they came up with some great ideas for uses of podcasts!

• Have students record and edit movies and broadcast via podcast - moviecasting!
• Creating tech instructional podcast on how to do various tasks like email
• Opportunities for training on district-wide systems
• Have students do podcast presentations, thereby addressing the issues of time where you can't get everyone up in front of the class. An immediate win is that students don't often get the opportunity to hear themselves and self-critique until college.
• Virtual campus/school tours
• Audio quiz/audio answers
• Library could do weekly/monthly podcast on new or featured books, bibliographic or library use
• Enhancement to lessons
• Students in the hospital never gets the full class experience, could get more of an experience with a vodcast
• This workshop could have been podcast
• Coaches created podcasts of the team plays and the team listened and learned on the bus

Some advantages were brought up:

• Focused, what you want when you want, just-in-time learning, segmenting, smaller files
• Addressing different learners
• Reaching more students
• Achieving hard to achieve educational goals
• 21st Century Skills addressed

Next everyone is going to use the following to create podcasts right here, right now.

• Gcast - http://www.gcast.com/
• PodcastPeople - http://www.podcastpeople.com/

Lots of fun was had. Wish you'd been here ;)
~julz

Online Identity

This was a post I created for the students in our Online Teaching and Learning Graduate Certificate program: Branding vs. Pseudonymity When you decide to take your courses and your presence online, you start developing an online identity and an online persona. Some people don't mind a public or even branded online identity/persona. In fact, they foster it: See http://juliaparra.com It's important to have an online presence and an online persona in order to develop a thriving learning community and feel successful as a student and as a teacher.However, many people do not feel comfortable with their pictures and real identity being freely available on the web. Thus, it's a good time to reflect on how public you want your online identity/persona to be. My friend, Bethany is fostering a near-pseudo identity with her TekTrekker moniker. I say near-pseudo because her first name is scattered throughout the blog. So, depending on your attitude about the Internet, we recommend that you consider your online identity. If you want to brand yourself, use your real name. If you do not trust the Internet, consider a pseudo-identity, a way to interact with us and each other online yet remain somewhat anonymous. Creating Your Pseudo-Identity First, ponder a fake name that is unique and doesn't identify you. For example, a pseudo-identity that I might have considered is desertjewel. Second, set up your pseudonym email account. Gmail is our recommendation as you no longer need a secondary account. Hopefully, your pseudonym idea hasn't been used by someone else. This is where you might have to make adjustments to your chosen pseudonym. Third, create an avatar for your online picture. Yahoo Avatars is a fun still image avatar. Voki is great for your audio/video avatar. If you have a Second Life character, you can take a picture of yourself in Second Life and use that. More about avatars - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(virtual_reality) Last, use your pseudonym and avatar image whenever you are asked to post something online. Resources for Further Exploration Why You May Need an Online Persona Your Online Persona Developing Your Online Persona Taking Care of Your Internet Persona Managing Your Online Persona Becomes a Key Career Skill Online Identity The Brand Called You Personal Branding What do you think about your online identity?

My reflection on online identity, persona, and presence

There is one legal me, I have an online presence (that includes teacher, social, cognitive, and maybe more), I have many identities due to all the things I belong to and I can foster a variety of personas based on the situation I find myself in....all of this, hopefully leads to Julia the Brand, where you might recognize/realize my faves, my values, my academic and personal interests, etc. Just wanted this somewhere... ;) ~julz

My iPhone Comment

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Elliot Masie's iPhone & Learning: Early Report

Web 2.0 Adventures

A few cool things have come my way recently.

1. Josh Catone at Read/Write Web pulled together a Web 2.0 Backpack which is great list of Web 2.0 resources for students (and teachers).
2. I'm enjoying a cool elearning resource called edu2.0.
3. And I'm having too much fun creating yet another group space at grou.ps.
4. Oh yeah, scroll all the way to the bottom of this blog to play in a Meebo Chat room.

Have Fun! :) ~julz

Ning

K, I am having way too much fun with Ning. I had no idea it had come so far as a do it yourself social networking tool. Thanks to Classroom 2.o and Steve Hargadon for showing me the light. Anyways, I have started my own private social network for friends and family called JulzWorld. I think I will use this for the Fostering Online Learning Communities course I teach as well. It really is very fun times at Ning... :) ~julz

I Love Widgets!

As you can tell by my blog, I LOVE Widgets! I just added a couple of widgets recommended by Read/Write Web. I'm also working on an explanation and widget resources for my RETAzens at the current RETA Wiki.