11-22-11
Thanks to Thanksgiving, I was unable to attend the web conferences for week 2, but I watched the recording of the Nov. 22 web cast to help me understand the week 2 assignment. As usual, Dr. Abernathy started the web conference with a great deal of enthusiasm and clarification about expectations for week 2. She was very explicit in her comments about not having to assess any one video editing tool. In the explanation for allowing the assessment of different tools, Dr. Abernathy proved her knowledge of the state of public education and the resources (or lack of resources) that are available. She also did an excellent job of relating the reason for the week 2 assignments: in order for us to become competent technology facilitators that are familiar with many different tools. After all, it isn’t about the cost of technology, but the use of technology.
As the web conference continued, there was an explanation of descriptive tags that was very helpful. At first I was confused by this requirement, but since it aids people when searching for specific information, it began to make much more sense. I enjoyed Dr. Abernathy’s question about why we should post our podcast on YouTube. I agreed with others that it makes it public and might help others. I did not realize that the embedded code that is given to you through YouTube would allow you to embed your podcast or video into your wiki. My podcast was uploaded to my wiki without any trouble, but I previously had difficulty adding a file that was too large. The embedded code should make uploading videos to my wiki a much easier task. I was relieved to see that other students were having difficulty uploading an mp3 file to YouTube. I have uploaded my podcast to podbean which allowed me to use descriptive tags, give a short explanation of the podcast, and display my creative commons license. This was a short, but informative, web conference that helped clarify for me why we were doing the assignment and what I was expected to learn.
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