My Podcast Site

Personal Summer Theme Song!

Interview with a Teacher (2)

My second interview, this one with Sharyn West, a veteran teacher from Martin Middle School.

Interview with a Teacher (1)

We're interviewing teachers for one of my classes.  I decided to upload my first interview as a podcast.

Engaging Students

Playing games, watching videos, using the Internet...teachers in the 21st Century have many tools to engage students.  It isn't always easy to distinguish between engaging students and entertaining them, especially since students who are engaged, challenged and working collaboratively are often having a great time!

Collaboration vs. Attribution

Teachers bemoan students' inability (or unwillingness) to cite their sources.  But in the 21st Century, collaborative methods of gathering and creating information, along with the ever-increasing ability of private citizens to contribute informally to the global pool of knowledge, give educators good reason to reexamine, and perhaps even rethink, traditional definitions of attribution, citation, and plagiarism.

Meta-Cast

Podcasting:  New Education Tool or Old Education Tool?
You decide!
But...um...first listen to what I have to say about it, 'kay?

Blakely's First Podcast!

Researchers in the 21st Century will rely on written materials, as well as a new kind of oral tradition, made possible by the Internet.  This hybrid research model will require sophisticated critical analysis to determine source credibility.