Vidcast Week 2

This week and last week we worked on Vidcasts. My partner wanted to use a program at home so I joined Shellie and Debbie and they chose to do there research on the underground railroad. It was interesting doing this as a teacher in training because I have read the quilt books but doing this really hit home.

I think it hit home finding out about each square and what it all means for those slaves heading for freedom. Doing this I got to put myself in the slaves shoes for a bit, without all the horrible things they went through and learn more about the under ground railroad. I think that we did this Vidcast more for the sake of learning new content and things we have missed over the years. I know that things my elementary teachers wanted our class to learn are different from my beliefs of what my future students should learn. I was also glad like I said last week to work with a group using Apple Computers because of all the things that I learned from the apple computer when my husband bought us a new computer last Monday night he got an apple. He was as excited about the cool things that the computer could do as I was. It does help that he took a computer programing class in High School that allowed him to learn Java, C+, and other things. I think that this technology will be a great way to review content for a test or to present new content. Like I said I have heard about the underground railroad, but doing this was more of a review of content for me and it also allowed me to learn new material.

Like I said before this technology will help my future students because in the event that a sub is present all the sub will have to do is play the video and the students are in a way learning the content the way I want it presented. Although every persons learning style is different, the material could be presented in a way that I would do it myself if I was there. This information only increased my technology drawer  in my schema and I learned this on an Apple so that pretty much doubled my knowledge because I got to learn Vidcasts and some of the ins and outs of Apple Computers.
This information will let me teach this knowledge to my future students and as a type of assessment I can have them create one on a curtain topic from what they create i will be able to see if they really know the content or just coasting by pretending they know the information. I know teachers believed I knew the content. For example in Fifth Grade my teacher had us do those comparing and contrasting things where she would give us a word and say it is to another word like this word is to blank. I never knew what she wanted. I would ask and she would do the first one with me and still not explain it. I just coasted by by using a partner for help. I was crafty in choosing my partner, I chose the one that I did because she would always get the answers right. She would be like I have this what did you put, but I never really had it done so I would just give her a word and she would say that I don't think that is right. it was not until Social Studies Methods class this semester where I actually understood what she wanted back then.