From PowerPoint to Podcast
This podcast looks at the practical steps needed to convert a PowerPoint presentation into a podcast.
This podcast looks at the practical steps needed to convert a PowerPoint presentation into a podcast.
In the first article on this subject, we looked at the importance of learning foreign languages, and suggested some new technologies that might help in the process. This week we continue the discussion with a look at how these technologies mesh with what we know about language learning.
To thrivein a global marketplace, we need to understand the role of language. Themonolingual worker is at a disadvantage today, and will be more so in the future. And yet a majority of American youth are not studying a foreignlanguage, and few become fluent in anything but their native tongue. We need tofix this, and technology can help.
Students attend school not simply to practice the technology techniques they already know, but to learn new modes of analysis and to see how they can use those familiar tools to dig deeper and see further. To grow in that way, they need to couple their technical facility with the guidance of a wise faculty.
This week's podcast covers one important aspect of the web publishing process: how to arrange a collection of sites into a single folder with a master home page.
Consider replacing a traditional assignment or two this semester with a podcasting assignment.
This podcast looks at how we as teachers, need to understand how our students produce their own media, and then figure out how to exploit this production process into our curriculum.
This week's podcast covers how to make a video podcast, that can combine audio and moving video, and play on a computer or an iPod.
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