PODcast

Today was so much fun.  I was a little nervous about working with a podcast and coming up with a topic to talk about but it actually worked out really well.  I chose to do my podcast on finding the slope between two given points.  I wasn't sure how to find images or if I could sort of work it out as I am speaking.  It ended up working out just fine.  I found plenty of images related and useful to this idea.  Thank goodness for the internet...it still amazes me.  I also can't believe that I finished it in a day.  I normally take a while to get this stuff done.  There are a few pauses that could be taken out if I have time to come back to it an refine it, but for my first time I am pretty proud of myself.

This is a technology that I never considered using in the classroom, but after working with it and seeing the simplicity of it I would love to use this in my classroom.  Even if it is for me as a teacher not only a resources to learn from and bring into the classroom, but also as a resource for my students.  I can point them to some extra help or I could make my own tutor help or lecture and have them watch it in advance and then we could spend more class time working through the kinks and making sure students understand the concepts they are suppose to learn.  I also think it would be a great way for students to share a topic on math and they could then do a small lesson like what I did and through that be able to internalize it better.  And by students watching each others they may see a different way of doing it that they understand better.

I am really excited about this and hope to find ways to use this so students can see math can be fun and relatable to real world experiences.