I am feeling kind of discouraged about my podcast. While working on it, I felt that I had a good sense of where I was going. I felt like I was learning to manipulate the applications fairly well. I even started to feel like I was ready to move on to iMovie to make something more dramatic. I found pictures and music that I thought fit well together, and I felt pretty confident overall with my finished product. It was amusing to me, but still, I thought it showed that I had learned something from Friedman and was gaining some facility with the iLife '06 applications.
Then, I saw what other people did.
Now I think my podcast is - in a word - lame. I'm frustrated because I actually worked hard on trying to get things right and make it engaging. But, as I see from what other people have done, there was so much more that could have been done. I guess the upshot is that my students will only need a teacher who allows and supports the use of technology, not one who's good at it.
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Sarah, I think you are being too hard on yourself. I think you did a good job on your podcast. You handled the technical challenges quite well.
I think the next step, for both you and your classmates, is to explore how this emerging literacy allows us to think differently, to express ourselves in a new mode. That's the great challenge.
Sarah,
I feel letdown by my podcast as well. The abstract assignment threw me for the longest time. For me, technology manipulation was not an issue; I had no problems the whole time and threw it together in under two hours. The problem for me was a creativity issue. I think that if the assignment had seemed more open-ended to me, I would have done a better job. But now that I know how to use the technology, I actally can't wait to create a newer and better podcast on my own sometime.
Nat
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