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Explore the advantages and integration of podcasting, blogging, WebQuests, teacher websites, and RSS feeds in education. Discover how students can benefit from utilizing these technologies for learning and teaching. Access resources and examples to enhance your teaching strategies through tech integration.
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Technology Integration Podcasting, Blogging, Teacher Web, WebQuests, Faculty Websites, & RSS Feeds
Podcasting • Advantages: ease of use, students familiar with podcasting, integration • iTunes • Search using the following terms • Education • Science • Teaching • Technology and Teaching
Blogging • Blogging can be used as an ongoing journal to promote writing, and allow students to synthesize content presented during class. • Students can create a blog based on online teaching resources that can be used during their future careers. • www.Blogger.com
Examples of Education Related Blogs: • http://egypt2006csuf.blogspot.com • http://mustangblog.typepad.com/educationalweblogs/ • http://csufeducation.blogspot.com/
Teacher Web • www.teacherweb.com • Easy for students to access and use. • Web based software that students can continue to use in their future careers. • Teacher Web offers a template for students to create and upload WebQuests---free.
WebQuests • Millions of quality WebQuests that students can access, modify, implement into their teaching strategies. • One more method of teaching students how to use online resources to research and use an inquiry based approach to learning.
WebQuests • http://webquest.org/ • New Teacher Survival WebQuest • http://www.webquest.org/questgarden/lessons/25920-060611093217/index.htm • Be the Change • http://www.accessola.com/osla/bethechange/webquest/littlebit/index.html • Life of a Gaucho • http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~rgp6722/websites/gaucho_webquest/index.htm
Faculty Websites • Hosted by the Faculty Development Center. • Contact Shariq Ahmed x4720 so that a site can be initiated for you. • Many faculty have used the Faculty Development Center server: • http://faculty.fullerton.edu/
RSS Feeds • Advantages: • Allow for others to subscribe to your site • Receive the updated content on site • Information is sent out to the subscribers • Readily available with Blogs • CSUF’s Home Page has an RSS feed • http://www.fullerton.edu
RSS Readers • www.yahoo.com • iTunes • (requires additional coding and search features)