Information on Itunes University

Apple offers on their ITunes store a section called ITunes U. ITunes U has free downloads and audios of many universities around the United States. PSFK shows that students do better in school with ITunes University. The website states an experiment that the results said "Students who downloaded the podcast averaged a C (71 out of 100) on the test - substantially better than those who attended the lecture, who on average mustered only a D (62)."
Though these studies show improvement on test, many professors fear the drop in attendance. So some professors are limiting their podcast on ITunes U. However some do think that is great; that this technology can make the classrooms better. I think if the University of South Alabama had ITunes U I would be using it for sure.

Ipods in Education

Looking up the IPods in education I found a terrific website World. It gave me so many links to different websites detailing IPods in the class room. One website was the Apple website. This website I found the most interesting. Apple talks about students having IPods along with Iphones to bring learning wherever they go.

Duke University gave their freshman all iPods. They were found effective and now they allow certain classes to use them. I think this would be great to have to put lecture notes and the teacher’s lesson for the day on. I believe it would be very helpful. Technology is becoming a big deal in our society and our children need to learn to be able to use devices such as these to learn. With supervision I believe IPods in the classroom could be a great success.

Alice Christie's Site

Alice Christie has created an amazing site for teachers, parents, and students. She has gathered over 30 years of experienced and put all on one website. This is very valuable for teachers. I believe that you should always take from other people’s experience. She gives you everything she knows.
Her website has links on everything a teacher needs and more. Alice says that you never stop learning. I truly believe that you can teach old dog new tricks. So this website does not only give new teacher’s great help and advice it can also enlighten older teachers. I believe you should always try to learn and improve and I believe this is a site as a teacher I will love to learn and use.

Wikipedia Is It Credible

Wikipedia is an unbelievable source. I think it is great if you just want to know something general but it is not credible. I like the Wikipedia scanner that Virgil Griffith made. It will allow many companies conspiracies that try to hide the facts on them to come into light. Yes this will scare many companies to not change their information, but it does not eliminate it. I will never use Wikipedia as a credible source. It will, and won’t ever be, but it is a good general information site.

My Response to Fisch "What IT Wants"

I love Karl Fisch's blog. It is full of interesting facts and information. I learn so much from this blog. I believe I will always read it even after this class.
One post I read from this blog was What IT Wants. Though I truly don't know what "IT" is per say I like the other things she talks about. He tells you the things a graduate student should look like as in:

• Passionate about learning.
• Self-directed, motivated.
• Curious.
• Creative.
• Global perspective. De-centered – focus on others.
• Tech enabled.
• Has their own Personal Learning Network and is actively nurturing it.
• Understands that working on problems that haven’t been solved is what real people do, not following step by step procedures. Be problem solvers. Also problem finders.
• Able to be given a “big picture” overview of an assignment and go for it without a lot of direction.
• Collaborative.
• Learn how to learn.
• Don’t stop at the first right answer.
• Producers, not just consumers.

His facts and personal views are so creative and so passionate I agree with him. He truly believes in great teachers and that gives me so much respect for him.

My Thoughts on the EDM310 Fall 08 Podcast

To improve one you must listen and learn from others. I listened to different pod cast from Dr. Strange's fall class. Listing to his EDM 310 class gave me insight and allowed my self to see what I can do to improve any future pod cast of mine.

Listening to these pod cast help me learn that I need to be lively. I need to talk to where I catch the person’s attention. You want the person to want to listen. Also, I learned that you need to know the information. Sometimes in these pod cast the host would say "um" and talk as if they were reading off a sheet. The listener needs to believe I know what I am talking about and trust what I am saying. Learning is apart of education. And learning allows you to grow.