•Comment about your experience in doing these tasks and include a link to your blog post for this Implement tasks.
-Implementing the embedding of the video of Mr. Winkle on my blog was simple thanks to the You Tube video--great visual because it took a lot of the guesswork out of the how to.
-Finding the Torres Henderson file within itunes U was more challenging. The video was inspiring. I watched the whole thing even though only the first 17 minutes were the most relevant simply because I hoped that what they presented would be a springboard for ideas I could use in my classes.
•The iTunes video with Torres and Henderson distinguishes between doing things in a different way and doing different things. Give examples of where you have used technology to do things in a different way and to do different things.
-My first teaching experience lasted for one year about 9 years ago--back when technology in the classroom was unheard of outside of the occasional video. Now, I'm teaching again, after raising two babies, and I'm realizing how different the students are. For the past seven months, I have done what I had to daily just to keep my head above water and sometimes that included a power point presentation or playing a video or audio file, but that was the extent of it inside the classroom. During the last vacation, I started researching creative ideas to use in the classroom to make the subject material fun to learn and one of them was using a cell phone. Now, the ideas are really beginning to flow; students don't need video cameras to record interviews b/c they have web cams with microphones; skype is available for esl students to talk with native speakers; blogs could be used for journal entries all posted to the me and thus not use any paper or take time to print. I can't wait to learn how to use it all together; lack of knowledge is holding me back from using it tomorrow. I want to have it thought through and know how to deal with the kinks a little so I can keep the students excited and motivated.
•What benefit can you see in embedding a Youtube video in a web page, rather than linking to the same video in Youtube?
-It seems that an embedded video doesn't take as long to spool or load. I'm not really sure what the difference is between the two. Is embedding where the video is right there to watch and linking means that there is a link to click on and then a new browser window opens? If I defined this right, embedding the video would be more beneficial because people would be more likely to watch the video that moment than if they had to take the time to go to a different site. It is too easy to get distracted while waiting and if the end result isn't sweet enough to wait for, most people will never get there.
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