This "thing 14" has been fun to explore for this course, but more exciting to explore as an extension to the SMART Goals professional development we offered last week to our middle school math teachers across the county. I wanted to comment on some of the information I gained through exploring podcasts and reading the article about university students and podcasts. The findings of the research only makes sense to me. If podcasts are available, it allows the participants to listen to the same material more than once or to hear something similar by another person/group. Either way, this repeated learning will help cement the learning into place. We know that learning does not occur just by hearing something once. We might be able to repeat what was said, but deep learning comes from repeated learning around the same topic as well as collaborative discussions about the specific topic. Podcast also allow participants to catch-up on a missed session or to hear a podcast that could not be viewed during the online streaming of the session. I currently listen to Superintendent Flannigan's monthly podcast as a way to keep up on the latest topics he is sharing.
I have to say that I was really impressed with the work that Wayne RESA has done and hope that the work we are beginning to do at Kent will allow our local districts to gain the same level of web 2.0 learning in the near future. If you are interested, here ar some great enhanced podcast links your you to visit:
SMART Goals UDL Pillar I Dec. 14, 2009
SMART Goals UDL Pillar 2 Dec.14, 2009
SMART Goals UDL Pillar 3 Dec. 14, 2009
http://mistreamnet.com/videtail.php?who=TTG100 (Wayne County RESA's and MISTREAMNET have a awesome video overview of podcasts)
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