Podcasting

When I heard podcasting for the first time, I thought it is just music. After I started this class and Dr.Z told us to research about it, I found out that podcasting is used for many things, especially in education. The first podcast I followed and listened to is Ted Talk for education, TedTalk  and the episode that I watched was Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids? It is 8 minutes long. Adora is very interesting young girl. Her presentation was very inspiring! She was talking about the responsibilities of parents toward their kids. This kind of podcasting would encourage kids to talk, on the other hand, will make parents more open to their kids. I would use this links of podcasting in my classroom.

The second podcast is podcast.com/ education. The Spirit of Education   It has many episodes about the book called The Spirit of Education by Jeff White. This podcast is very nice and helpful, talking about the education and the process of learning. The writer of this book Jeff is talking by himself and reading his book in a very clear voice. In my opinion listening to this podcast is better than reading the same book.

The third podcast is appysmarts. This podcast is very interesting educational tool for kids to learn and play games on iPhone or iPod.  appysmarts. In this web site they use easy tools to learn for kids, with a work and picture dictionary. It is very interesting to me to use it inside classrooms.

At the end of this blog I have to mention that my favorite tool is voice thread. It is very interesting and very useful for distance education.

Blog Technology As a Learning Tool

In the past week I was reading many blogs about technology. For example Bits, the business of technology was talking about the relationship between Facebook and Twitter, they said “In the world of social networks, Facebook and Twitter can be compared to the old children’s story “The Tortoise and the Hare.” But this race is not judged by speed but by the long-term relationship with users and their privacy

The best blog I read was Technorati, they talk about everything with technology, technology in art, technology in church, technology in telecom. This one is very interesting; you can find anything you want.

The third blog is IFS world, about technology, innovation, and creativity. I read a nice article named Together is Smarter, it said:   Speaking of creativity and innovations, the most important word is together. To do things faster and smarter we have to help each other. Any communication disruptions will interfere and slow down the innovation process.

I found a common theme between them is technology, since our world now is depending on technology; there is no way to stay away from it.

The thread or the topic of the blog is making your blog is more interesting and useful for your readers.

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(LUXOR, Egypt) — The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.

Hospital officials had pronounced dead Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, who came from the village of Naga al-Simman in the southern province of Luxor, after he suffered a heart attack while working.

His family says grieving relatives took him home and, according to Islamic tradition, washed his body and prepared him for burial Friday evening.

A doctor sent to sign the death certificate found it strange that his body was warm. At closer observation she discovered he was still alive.

His mother fainted upon hearing the good news.

With the doctor’s assistance, both al-Nubi and his mother were awakened and soon were celebrating with guests.