The podcast software was surprisingly easy to work
with. I am very glad of this, as I think
I am getting a cold and I really didn’t want to fight with a computer too much
today. Mostly, the idea of recording my voice and then posting it as a podcast
seemed very surreal to me- as I said in
my podcast, I felt like I was recording one of those apocalypse type videos
where whoever is the last person living records a video to tell future people
how they all died, and to not make the same mistakes again.
So, for future people looking to not make the same mistakes:
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My computer is a very basic model, and it is
old, so a lot of the software didn’t want to play on my operating system. This
led to cursing, tears, and then trying to figure out what download I could use
to make it work.
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Because of said computer, none of the videos and
tutorials worked for me, since I was missing buttons or other things most
people apparently have.
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As a teacher, I need to not assume students have
access to all of this technology- if I want them to use something, I need to
make sure they have access to it, either at school, at the library, at home, or
as a check out. This is especially important given where I want to work- there
are a lot of low income families.
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I am a very outdoors, hands on person, so I don’t
immediately think of technology as a way to get kids in touch with nature, but
through videos and pictures and such this could definitely work.