After all of the stress with creating my website, I think it turned out really well. I decided to use the Propaganda topic that I used in my webquest. I have a lot of good resources there...I just wish that I was returning to teach in the fall so I could use the material that I created. That is the hard part about being at home (don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade being at home with my girls for ANYTHING)...but I am learning so much this semester (and last), and I am anxious to implement it. Maybe I'll have to start teaching my 20 month olds about propaganda :)
I really like the asynchronous chats that we are using in this class. Letting my group see the things I have created and getting their feedback has been really helpful. Sometimes after you look at something for so long, you can't see the flaws with it, so having group feedback has been great for me!
Now that I am done with the website, I have begun my final project...the podcast. I am the most nervous about this project, because I have NO knowledge about podcasts. I've listened to one or two, but never created one. I decided to do my podcast on different propaganda techniques and example advertisements that use the techniques. It's actually really interesting! I have written the script and am ready to start recording. I have only one major problem...I lost my voice. I had a cold last week and I am feeling better now, but I still don't have my voice back. I'm hoping that it comes back soon or my group member will be SCARED of my podcast since my voice sounds really scary now :) We shall see...
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Wow Heather! It will be difficult to create a podcast without a voice :-). I'm glad you got yours back, even if it is a little scary. I haven't made a podcast before either. I subscribed to one via itunes that did vocabulary for the week or so that I studied for the GRE. It was fairly useful. I'm sure that you'll do a good job.
Andrew
Hope your podcast goes well w/o a voice. Hey, you could do a video-cast (vodcast) and be a mime! Then you wouldn't have to worry about the voice thing.
I live in Jackson! How did you like the MS? My sons go to Strausser (great school-looks more like a mall).
I haven't made a podcast either. Hope Apple makes it easy on me like their commercials always promise.
I'm sorry this is too late but maybe for future use, Archive.org has some great PSAs from the tobacco companies. I find these interesting. You can include your own commentary, or ask students to create thier own PSAs to be podcasted. Check out Archive, it has some great stuff.
I am always surprised to hear how much people hate the sound of their own voices. Isn't it funny that as many times as I hear that, I always stop and think about it. Audio recording is a really truthful medium. We hear the real us. The outside us. After so many years of hearing ourselves from the inside, it is almost as if there is someone else within us talking when we hear our recordings. BTW, I really dislike my own voice, both the inside and the outside voices.
Dan
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