Podcast

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:

·         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. 

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.