I looked over a few of the sites--TeacherTube first of all because it sounded like it had so much promise. It was pretty lame, however. I found Photostory-like videos about symbolism and
Lord of the Flies (my current unit), but, quite frankly, it wasn't anything
I couldn't do. In fact, I was thinking video-videos when I went to the site--the fact the postings in many cases
were Photostorys made me reconsider creating a few for my own classroom. For intros or notes I used to think Powerpoint (or if I'm
really honest, transparencies!), and now I think Prezi or Voicethread. But why
not a video? I have the images from my Powerpoints and the rest is easy as I learned in Thing 19. Sort of.
I also looked at Masher because I've heard mashups mentioned on NPR a couple times in the past few months and didn't really know what it was. It was mentioned in connection with copyright and the fact that mashups are changing copyright law. I think kids would absolutely LOVE this resource--I just don't know if we have the hardware at school to support this. But at least I could offer it for an option. (I
did learn that mashups are video collages, not a Thanksgiving potato dish.)
I looked at the podcast information because my teaching colleague and I decided to have kids create a podcast as part of their assessment--we thought, "Oh, Audacity ... we know that from summer CCS work!" Oops--as of early October Audacity was not accepting new accounts. Kids had to take it from there. Most went to YouTube and just uploaded a photo or graphic and a voice over. That was disappointing, but I'd still like to pursue it. I'm not sure kids would need a
teacher-created podcast, but I think they liked creating them.
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