whiteboards and podcasting
Today we learned about whiteboards and podcasting-
I have used whiteboards back home and LOVE them. I actually worked at a charter school for technology and saw them used in so many ways, with second graders! One thing that stood out while I worked there was that we had someone from the local aquairium come and bring different animals, the whiteboard can come with a microscope device and they used it to enlarge the animal and have it on the board-it was so great you could see the creature breathing!- The presentation was very good and I liked how we got to play with the whiteboard application outself!
The other presentation was on podcasting. I have never used podcasting or really heard of it except on One Tree Hill and commercials about having it on your telephone. I thought it was cool we could use the garage recording device and the presentation video’s were interesting–I would like to take more time and explore podcasting myself. 
September 26th, 2008 at 7:21 am
I’m curious – are electronic whiteboards standard resources in most schools back home (America)?
September 26th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
It really depends what school district your in. Each district gets different funding from the government depending on their test scores, what the area is like, the number of kids passing, teacher turnover rate etc. I did not have them in my middle or elementary school-but about 10 teachers had them in my high school, all of these are public schools. I am sure all private school have them because they make so much money off the students that go there.
I wouldn’t say they are “standard” but since teachers are allowed a certain amount of money each year, that may be what the teacher decides to put it towards.