Reflections
This fall semester teaching at SUNYAB has been quite overwhelming. Having had 50 students to provide feedback to was rewarding but extremely time-consuming. I found that I didn’t have time to explore new online tools myself or to refine my skills at using the tools that I am familiar with in order to keep my courses as up-to-date and as accessible as possible for a wide range of skill levels.
I have also seen that I don’t have time to keep up with all the very informative blogs that I have rss feeds for, so I think the solution is to choose just two or three of the most useful. However, I want to keep a list of some of the very best ones to use as suggestions for my students.
In the interim between semesters I hope to review some new sites for recording podcasts since trying to have the students record directly on Podomatic was a real disaster. The site is very unreliable in that aspect. The students who were successful were mostly those who recording elsewhere and uploaded their mp3 files to Podomatic. I know that recording in Audacity is an option, but it seems complicated for newbies and my purpose is not to have the students create fantastic podcasts, but, simply, to have them start to envision how podcasting could enhance their teaching. I’ll have to remember to mention that video podcasting is an option they can also use.
The purpose of this blog seems to be evolving into a repository of reflections and how to type instructions. Let’s see what the new year brings.
