Tuesday, April 7, 2009

itunes University-March 8

Itunes university is a very cool toll that itumes offer. This gives you a chance to listen to different universities and professors giving lectures and presentations. It is very cool you can step into a college classroom from the comfort of your own home and listen live to their lectures. I thnik that this great becauase it gives people a chance to learn things all the time it is also cool because if you are sick and missing class and you dont want to miss lecture or need to get information that you missed all you have to do igo back and find it and listen. I think that this is very cool also because grade school and high students can listen to different presentations to help them learn more about something that they are learning about in school or that they have to do a project on. I could use it asa teacher to teach my students from to give them more information about a topic or show them how to use for the future as a reference to help them.
I just went to itunes.com and clicked on the iuniversity link and it explains all about it. You could also just google it and lots of links come up to help you and explain what it is and link you to lectures. I think the easiest way is to google and avutally go to itunes because it is the most credible.

The first podcast was the Edible Schoolyard and it is a program to educate children about the outdoors and where their food comes from. The students knew that their food came from the outside this just really educated them on the process. The second podcast was A Night in the Global Village and in this video children were separated into groups and had to live in different countries. The groups had some things at their disposal and some had none. They were expected to adapt to that environment. They were expected to do this by working with their groups and the other groups to accomplish this.
These were both very interesting and I think that children can learn from these types of podcasts. I think that this is helpful because children can learn about this stuff at home or at school. There are so many things for them to find information on it is endless. I also feel like teachers can learn so much from this because they can use this as a teaching device in their classroom and use it to get assigments accomlished.

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