After reading this Article i got more of a clear understanding on what “Vodcasting” is. Personally i choose Podcasting every time though. I feel as if Podcasting is much more effective to every person rather than Vodcasting. Operating and getting more interactive with podcasts seems much easier than Vodcasting. I personally do not own a video camera, so that’d be a bummer for me, and also i dont have a good chunk of money sitting around to go buy one. I have a computer with access of internet, personal listening device, and microphone that can pretty much cover most of the uses of Podcasting. Podcasting just seems like something everyone can use more and also has much more to offer so far as when or where you’d like to use them. I’m not saying Vodcasting has no use, im just saying that podcasting can be much more useful to everyone. Being able to carry around a 3″ portable listening device and listen to a class, talk show, music, book etc. just seems like the way to go, and also the best bang for the buck. Not everyone can afford a laptop or video camera, so why not stick to something that cost less and can be just as useful as anything else.
After taking the HTML tutorial, it really just gave me basic strategies for starting and ending a code. Most of this stuff i had already figured out because of messing around with this on my own. I like how right after you get done writing or editing a text file that consist of html you can simply go to your browser and select open, and it will preview the page for you, I love direct results. CSS seems like such a big help to web developers, because it allows them to access more than one web page at a time. Being able to save time on such a big project definitely will be nice. Im new with these two topics, so what i take from these to tutorials is that HTML/CSS are very similar and pretty much deal with the same thing. CSS seems like something more along the lines to save developers time and control the layout and overall design much easier. Correct me if I’m wrong please.
So far my personal learning environment has really been convient to me. I’ve been experimenting with netvibes everynow and then and its really working out quite well for me. I have a few tabs, one for General which covers everyday news. Honestly, i dont read the newspaper, and this really gives me a chance to keep up to date on things. I have another tab for IMD, a few tabs that link me to this site, and a couple extra blog search engines. The last one i use is for my personal interest in cars, i have a link to the forums i communicate through all the other enthusiast with. Netvibes is really a great way of bringing all the sites i use to one page. Im glad we got introduced to this PLE and i look forward to plugging more information into it, and finding out more that it has to offer.
After reading about how podcasts are used, i’ve learned a few ways i never would have thought these would have been used. Podcasting can be used for talk shows, tutorials, music demos, educational training, stories, comedy clips, debates or even foreign language tutorials. The advantage of these is being able to choose what he/she recieves, and being able to decide when and where they’d like to listen to it. Being able to access your podcasts from your hand held device such as a ipod, is a huge help and convience. Reading that podcasts are impacting visually-impaired listeners was really cool in my opinion, having unlimited coolection of recorded books benefits these people so much. Podcasting is only a few years old, and is well on its way to becoming huge. Also, podcastings opening up marketing and communication opportunities to businesses. Its clear that podcasting will start to be used much more between businesses being poewrful in many ways. I remember at my high school teachers were just beginning to record class lectures which would allow us to access these at home and download them to our computers. Podcasts are getting more and more user friendly everyday and will open up many more opportunities for listeners.
Podcasting is content we can find online and is delivered through RSS. It has many advantages over the radio already and its still at a rapid growth rate. Podcasting allows us to determine the time and place, meaning we determine what programming we want to receive. While blogs have turned many boggers into journalists, podcasting has the potential to turn podcasters into radio personalities.
Some things podcasting is used for:
1. Self-Guided Walking Tours – Informational content.
2. Music – Band promotional clips and interviews.
3. Talk Shows – Industry or organizational news, investor news, sportscasts, news coverage and commentaries.
4. Training – Instructional informational materials.
5. Story – Story telling for children or the visually-impaired.
Podcasting was originaly designed for the iPod, you can still access these by using a similar device. One of the biggest advantages in my opinion is being able to choose what we see or hear with podcasts. Its not like turning on the radio and having to sit through commercials we dont want to listen to.
Where can you find podcasts?
Most of the time you will be able to locate podcasts on websites with links to audio files and many of the RSS readers, like “FeedDemon’s” most recent beta, have begun supporting audio enclosures.
After reading this article I’ve come to realize that everything we’ve gone over so far relates to one another. These remind me of a personal learning environment where everyone can communicate and stay up to date on all the latest things. Getting active with one of these will force us to work on our communication skills once again, which is just going to get us more prepared. I wish going through middle and highschool i would have been able to communicate with class mates in something like this, it feels like i’d learn much more communicating in a blog format. The main thing i’m going to have to do when joining a community like one of these, is introducing myself as a new cumber and get involved with people who already know there way around things pretty well, and can show me the ropes of these. “Learning by doing” was stated in this article, and i plan on going after this and getting involved so i can get comfortable, and get more involved with PLEs.
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Well this article just about sums up what and what not to do about writing a blog. I wouldve never though that writing a blog, would require so many steps to go through in order for it to be successful. Out of the article overall, i fealt that the most important step was the “purpose” without having a purpose to write a article, nothing else will come. When Stephen Downes said “If you dont know why you’re doing something, you won’t know what your doing”, i fealt that this has to be the back bone of a successful blog. Another thing i noticed that was pretty important to him is the Design of the layout. Personally i cant wait to get into coding so this can be more of a custom layout of personal preference rather than a premade layout. When I came across the fact that a blog is our “identity” is what really made me want to get into making the layout more custom and fit my preference. The fact that blogs are free, easy to use and excellent for beginners makes blogs usefull to pretty much everyone. Blogs are getting more and more user friendly, becoming voice and video active is just going to make things easier.
The Article i decided to go with is
“Personal Learning Environments: What they are and how to implement them” By Ron Lubensky
After reading this article, basically it just went in to more details then the ones we’ve read previously. The best thing i still think about PLE’s is knowing that we’re setting our own goals, and manging our content. PLE’s help us out with is our communication skills and interacting with others, forcing us to work as a team. “Personal learning environments arose in reponse to the technical and policy constraints imposed by institutionalised VLEs and LMSs in both educational and workplace settings, which are perceived to impede personal learning choices.” Finding out exactly how PLE’s originated was always something I was striving to find out. In this article it states “PLEs are effectively controlled by the individual” we’re going to get out of a PLE what we put into it. In this Article I also read about “Eportfolios”, personalised learning content management systems. PLEs are sometimes concidered extensions of “Eportfolios”, but rarely are they seen. Its used to store the presentation layer for saved digital assets. For the time they have been used PLE’s have been extremly helpful to learners and people already working in the feild.
A few success’s that PLE’s have had so far:
1.) The ease with which they can be implemented and used by learners like our selves.
2.) Interoperability
3. The confidence that learners and institutional administrators have with them.
Personal Learning environments are as easy to use as anything else on the web, all thats waiting is for us to take advantage of this opportunity. This Article has motivated me to get out there and get some sort of experience under my belt to see what exactly this course will really take.
Before reading the article about PLE’s i really didnt think they had much to offer. Personal Learning Environments have so much to offer, it offers many different styles of learning, and also allows everyone to put forth there opinion on a subject. Personally I think one of the coolest things about PLE’s is the fact that you dont have to be in a educational program of some sort to use these, anyone looking to further there education can get online and do so with these. PLE’s can be accessed by anyone, all these are sitting right before you on the web. Another great thing about these are being able to set the tempo of our working styles. What the article “A recipe of Learning Web Design” said about having to have good communication skills is also tested using PLE’s. Using these we have to learn to communicate and get along with one another to make sure everyone understands the subject of discussion.
Not to much to say after reading this article, i fealt it was more of advice of how we need to go all out to gain more and more experience.The main point i got out of the article was that if we don’t stay on top of all the latest methods of work style, we dont have a chance at being succesful. Knowing that what we are going to learn could possibley be obsolete once we have graduated and get into the work feild kind of scares me, but also makes me look forward to how advanced and better new things might be. Reading that “its not all about doing your homework” made me laugh, but its right, focusing on getting involved and asking a lot of questions is whats going to keep us most up to date. This article was a great heads up on what were going to be experiencing in the web design work feild.
