Pod Cast

Check out my podcast that I made.

It is a mix of me playing the drums and piano on garage band. They are both done in the pop genre and are really fun and will make you want to dance. I can use this in education as a fun way to add to a presentation in a PowerPoint. As a teacher I could use this to help the kids learn in a fun way with adding music to back ground of a lesson being taught and even record my voice to teach them.

Week 4 Copyright, Plagiarism, and Ethical Issues

During week 4 we were introduced to copy right laws and how you can obey them on the internet. With so many different resouces and peices of information it is easy to just copy and paste something without even thinking about it. However you can not do that because that is someones work that you are taking and trying to make your own. You need to make sure that you site any information that you use in a project or on a website.

I can definitely use this in the college of education. I have to write many papers and do research so this would be very beneficial to me, so that I do not accidentally break a copy right law. It is always a good skill to know how to be able to site information correctly because you will have to use it through out your entire life.

In this video kengr discusses the great YouTube debate, whether it is ok to make YouTube videos with already existing information, and whether it is ok to download shows and movies from YouTube to your account. This is related to what I learned because he discusses the laws and why it is against the law to post these videos and download shows and movies.

Week 8 The Sound of....Podcasting

For the week of October 12th-16th we learned about how to make a podcast of our own. We were taught the many different programs that you could use to make one and where you can find random sounds to add to it from different sites, such as Freesound.org. A program that we learned about was garage band and how simple it is to make and start your own podcast. You are given sounds, music, and pictures to use to play around with and add to your podcast. Than you can upload it to imeem.com and embed it into a blog. Audacity is another way you can make a podcast, it is a free program that you can download to a mac or windows and record your voice and add sounds.

As a special education teacher using anything with sound can make learning fun and more interesting. Children with certain learning disabilities learn better through visuals and sounds so providing this for them would be a more efficient way to learn. They can even make one of their own for the assignment that we are learning that week or day.

I choose the video Using Garage Band to make a Podcast as my visual it takes you through step by step and shows you how make a podcast on garage band. This relates to what I learned that week because it is shows you in depth how to make a podcast and in case I forgot some step in making one I can go back and review it on this video.

Week 2 Educational Technology

Web Technology was very interesting, I have always thought web technology was just simply the Internet and anything to do with a computer. However I did not realize how much other aspects there are dealing with the web, and how much it impacts our everyday. When my mom was in school they did not use any form of technology as learning tools, in fact she used a type writer to type up her reports. Now in schools technology is just as much of the lesson plan as pencil is to paper. Students today are known as the new generation of learners. YouTube is a common thing used in classrooms and for projects, it is a prime learning tool. Students these days can find and learn anything online with simply searching on google or one of the many other search options.

Being an education major allows me to always using and being introduced to new technologies. I am always asked to do PowerPoint presentations in most of my education classes. Teachers are always being shown and given new technologies to teach their students. In special education there is always a large amount of technology to help the students speak, write, and learn new concepts. When I become a special education teacher I would love to have a smart board to help with the learning process.

This YouTube video shows the impact technology has on students today. We learned about how technology has changed significantly over the years and this video shows you in depth how extreme those changes are. Some of the facts may never have thought could ever be true.

Week 7 Digital Story Telling

The digital story telling lesson was a lot of fun to learn about. I enjoyed being introduced to new websites and programs that could help make a movie. I have never known how to do this so being able to learn and find out all of these different websites was a great learning experience. With this lesson I learned how to make movies with videos and pictures, by using new techniques. These movie makers take your pictures and allows them to transition as if it was a movie.I learned also how to make cartoons on goanimate.com, which allows you to have fun and make a wide range of differnt cartoons. I have had a Mac for years and never knew how to work iMovie, with this lesson I was able to finally learn how to use it, by adding pictures, aranging them into a story, and add music to it. On animoto.com I can make a movie there as well, they provide you with pictures and music but you can always add your own too.

This is extremely beneficial as an education major. In the education college there are many projects that have to be done, mostly visiual, and being able to do something other than a power point would be very impressive to a professor. As a teacher iMovie would help out with introducing a new lesson or studying vocab words. I want to work with elementary special education children, and I feel that they would get the most benefit from goanimate.com, the site where you can make cartoons. These are fun and more appealing to younger children. When you add fun in with the learning the students will not ever realize they are actually learning something. The cartoon movies would help me teach these children with a more fun approach.


This is a video on a goanimate.com tutorial. It shows you have to make a goanimate and some of the cool features that they offer on the website. We learned how to make a goanimate in class but if for some reason I was not sure on a step or forgot where to find a certain effect I could refer back to this video and it would remind me where to find it.

Week 5 Media and Information Literacy

I very much enjoyed when we learned about Photoshop I have always wanted to learn how to use it. I learned how to use almost every aspect of this program. We learned how to make layers, each one being a different element added to your photo. We used pictures of different types of shoes and added a background, and text to make it look like these shoes were in a grassy field. We saw that not only can photo shop be used to help enhance pictures but it can also take aspects away and added to a picture. An example of this are pictures photo shopped from the time of the civil war and the most famous pictures of today. People were either taken out or some were randomly added.

Photoshop is a very influential learning tool that I could use as an education major. Not only can I use it for different visual projects in the college of education, but also when I start teaching I can use it in the classroom. I am hoping to teach children with special needs so any kind of visual learning tool would benefit them greatly. I could Photoshop many different pictures and show my students a fun way to learn about colors and show them different forms of weather. Also by writing text on my Photoshopped pictures I can have them look at pictures and learn the word easier. Visual learning is a very important tool when working with children with special needs and Photoshop can have so many different benefits for them.

Photoshop can also be a way to have fun with your pictures. You can make items invisible, add some very interesting objects, and make someone look like a totally different person. The video I chose for my blog took out important objects in each photo, which not only changed the photo completely but made it funny. It relates to what I learned because it shows different ways that you can edit a picture and how drastically a picture can change with just one object being taken out.