So over the weekend, my buddy Chopper and I went on a small road trip to Dayton, Ohio for a fraternity event. We started off, and I got to talking about the Podcasting idea that I had to interview some brothers from all over the country and make it into a big Rush thing. He thought that was pretty cool and wanted to learn more about Podcasting, so I pulled out the iPod and mic and started recording. One thing led to another and soon we were making a new Podcast series about road trips. I posted them on my website:
web.mac.com/rmgardella
They are uncut and some are slightly offensive, but I was running into problems with Garage Band, so I just lazily posted them on my website instead. There is also a lot of unintentional product placement in them, as well.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Threded Discussions
OK, so I'm lazy and using what I posted up on Nicenet about threaded discussions, big whoop, you wanna fight about it? (for those of you who caught the Paddy Tanninger reference, good on ya!)
Having used Nicenet before, I can say that thread discussions are a great way for people to get what they are thinking out of their heads and onto a place where everyone can read and comment on what they wrote. This is also a great way to continue on class discussions after the bell has rung and the students go home. This is exactly what I was talking about earlier when I said that technology is able to give a voice to that quiet kid in the corner or for other students who think that they have to follow what their “role” (preppy, jock, geek, etc.) is in school and not raise their hands in class. The only problem about thread discussions is that it puts a lot of trust in the student to do work outside the classroom. Lazier students may not participate or, God forbid, students aren’t able to get onto the internet at their home. Other than that, I feel that thread discussions are a great supplement to the classroom and I think that I will try to use them in my classes.
Having used Nicenet before, I can say that thread discussions are a great way for people to get what they are thinking out of their heads and onto a place where everyone can read and comment on what they wrote. This is also a great way to continue on class discussions after the bell has rung and the students go home. This is exactly what I was talking about earlier when I said that technology is able to give a voice to that quiet kid in the corner or for other students who think that they have to follow what their “role” (preppy, jock, geek, etc.) is in school and not raise their hands in class. The only problem about thread discussions is that it puts a lot of trust in the student to do work outside the classroom. Lazier students may not participate or, God forbid, students aren’t able to get onto the internet at their home. Other than that, I feel that thread discussions are a great supplement to the classroom and I think that I will try to use them in my classes.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Wiki
Instead of working on my own wiki, I thought it would be cool to work with Kim, Meghan, and Lindsey on the English Job wiki that Allen created. Here's the link: http://englishjob.wikispaces.com/
UPDATE: So I decided to work on my own wiki for S'nGs. It's on the history of video games.
Here's the link: http://rmgardella.wikispaces.com/
UPDATE: So I decided to work on my own wiki for S'nGs. It's on the history of video games.
Here's the link: http://rmgardella.wikispaces.com/
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