Sunday, February 15, 2009


The first podcast that I listened to was about “How technology is used in classes at South” by Mat Cline and Jill Ravette. I though that they did a good job discussing how we use technology in the classrooms. They went over our online classes we offer, power points given by teacher, and how we use blogspot to communicate with other classmates. By using their personal experiences it made the podcast sound more genuin. Matt talked about how he struggled in one class because the teacher did not have power points to give out which made it hard for him to study. Then Jill discussed all the perks of having an online class and the people it helps out like the ones that are to busy to fit class time into their schedule. Over all I think it was a good way to tell of South’s technology filled environment that we offer.
Things that I would have changed about Matt and Jills broadcast to improve its quality for there listeners would have been the way they talked throughout it. Matt used the word “uhh” to much which is a connecter word that is used to get your thoughts together. This word “uhh” makes the person talking sound like they really do not know what they are talking about. He should have collected his thoughts and then said something in a complete sentence with out using his connecter word. Then for Jill she was thinking of all the information she had written down that she had to get across. By her thinking to much caused her to speed up her speech which made it hard to follow what she was saying. The best thing for her to do is to have note cards make with bullets of what to talk about.

The second podcast that I listened to was “Burp Back Education” by Ashley Denson, Sandy Presley, and Robyn Terry. They did an excellent job with this one it was very informative and gave examples on how to prevent burp back education. Ashley started it of by telling what burp back education is and how it is pretty much just students hearing then repeating on the test what the teacher has taut. In this education there is no chance for the student to interact with what they are learning so they can not retain the information is what Sandy shares with us. Then all the women give examples on how to prevent it.
Burp Back was an awesome podcast and very well put together but if I had to change things there are a couple of adjustments I would make. I would try not to interrupt each other when speaking. Then I would also try not to speak monotone either. After Listening to both though it sounds pretty tough but now hearing them has given me some ideas on how to make my podcast a success.

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