My First Post – So who am I?
Right now I am working in the Educational Technology Department in San Diego Unified. I think I have the best job in the world because I work with science teachers to help them to integrate technology into their teaching through a grant called ESETT (Enhancing Science Through Technology). I also get to help provide Moodle support for the district and a few other odds and ends. Each time I’m in the classroom of another teacher supporting them in some way, I long for my own classroom again, so someday soon perhaps I’ll be back.
My experience with blogs, wikis, and podcasts is limited, but I’ve got some experience with each. I’ve had several blogs but none that I’ve kept up with. I think if I had a classroom blog I would see a real value to keeping one up, but with my other blogs I don’t think I’ve had enough to say to keep posting (time is another factor). I’ve got lots of experience with Moodle wikis but those are very limited compared to other providers like wikispaces and pbwiki. I’ve definitely played with those and gotten to support teachers who’ve used them in their classrooms. I made a Moodle Minute podcast last year, but unfortunately I only made about 5 episodes and then got too busy to keep it up. Here’s a link to the Moodle tutorials page where you can subscribe to it http://moodle.sandi.net/course/view.php?id=1192 – you have to scroll down until you see the cow picture. In order to learn about things and also to have fun I’ve subscribed to lots of podcasts. I love Ask a Ninja. I also subscribed to Coffee Talk Spanish to try to learn Spanish on my commute, but I alwyays felt silly talking to myself in Spanish while I drove.
For my final project what I would like to do is set up a blog with a video podcast to complement the website that I started in 541. I made a website about World War II that I never had a chance to finish because it involved interviewing some of my family about their experiences in World War II on video and then posting the video. I had been trying to do it through flash but it was very time consuming. I think it would be awesome to post the videos to a blog so that people can leave comments. I think it might also be cool to have a companion wiki sight so that if other people have war experiences they have to share, they could create a page in a wiki. Here’s the link to the website I made: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~beezley/worldwar2/intro.htm and you can see that the video is conspicuously absent and the sight is incomplete.
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