Blogging

"To educate for the innovation economy, schools must provide students with
opportunities to engage in collaborative knowledge building activities, through
disciplined improvisation." Sawyer, R. Keith (2006):
Educating for Innovation. Thinking Skills and Creativity.


In this session, we'll get familiar with new conversational forms of media, and the empowering tools and technology and skill sets behind it all. In the lecture we’ll explore how blogging, video blogs, podcasts, shared tags/links, and other forms of new media are changing traditional media production, consumption and pedagogical models.

In the hands-on tutorial, we’ll demystify the tools and technology that make these new media forms and formats of conversational media possible. You will sign-up and start your own blog on the digital media social network or blogger.

The last part of the class will be devoted to a discussion about your class project(s).

Session 1

In this session, you will learn all about tips, tools and techniques to use podcasting in your teaching.

Garage Band -> record greeting in garage band (listen) -> plan your first podcast lesson (see sample) -> download the student worksheet In this unit, we focus specifically on Audio Recording & Editing. Applying the knowledge of various audio techniques (Montage, Mixing, Mastering), you will make multiple uses of editing tools to your teaching (conversation/dialogue, spoken word, language learning, translation, podcasts etc). Using Audacity or Garage Band, you will edit pre-existing and produce your own original work. In this, you will learn to audibly structure narrative and metaphor, while developing basic terminology around audio and sound. Later, in our unit on Blogging, you will learn how to compress and present your recorded works online as well as CD. Please leave a comment on what you thought was interesting in our first session as well as your preliminary thoughts for integrating technology more into your teaching.