Podcasts

The first pod cast I listened to was from http://www.kid-cast.com/podcast/index.htm. The speakers were Jake and Carson, students from Hickory Day School in technology. Their pod cast was concerning World problems namely Child labor. These two boys were brief in speaking and to the point which shocked me coming from kids but they had the basic knowledge of children working in factories. They explained how children are too young working in Africa and all over the world. They said children are cheaper to employ than adults in the Ivory coast. Companies such as: Hershey, Mars and Nestle buy cocoa beans from labor plants which to them are unfair. They asked a question, “Would you buy a $7 far trade bar cocoa beans or .50 nestle bar from someone in child labor violations?” They mentioned that there are Human Right’s Organizations watching the trading. They gave their school’s website Cshell@hickoryday.org in closing.

My second pod cast audio came from:
Mac Break Weekly 105: Don't Lick The Glass
The speakers were: Leo Laporte, Robert Llewellyn, Chris Breen, and Don McAllister
First the hosts gave mention to their supporters. They spoke on an “Apple” event. The pod cast was more like a lot of conference calls to get feedback on the event. It really sounded like a radio telecast and many of them talked together and over each other. They cracked jokes a lot and discussed pictures of the event and the gadgets introduced and updated such as the new Nano from Apple, updated Itunes, Ipod touch, maybe Iphone 2.1, Ipod’s color scheme and its 9 colors offered.

They hosts repeated how the slender types of the Nano have become popular and has more storage. They repeated the Ipod classic 160gigs are liked a lot but like the new size of 120gig that is out now mainly for the new width, they were excited with the larger library and Apple Iphone’s and volume control had added speakers and don’t need headphones. Said speakers are not good on Ipod touch. If I were in to this technology, it would have been informative, but there were too many of the same things mentioned in this pod cast and I was bored with it. My husband has the larger Ipod and loves it. I think they all costs too much.

Thirdly I listened to:
Teachers Connecting 4: Students View of EdTech & Connections
February 15th, 2009 this pod casts which was for informing students, how to listen to students and teachers. The introduction had loud music and the host and co-host talked of weather in Canada’s which is where the co-host was located.
They mentioned to discuss 7th grade students and why smart board helps and they think teachers should connect. I didn’t hear much from that. I did hear them mention to listen in or join in the “ Chime” at 415-315-9492 for more pod casting. The hosts quickly gave links for others to use, I did catch: webspiration.com for mind concepts in Math, said it had good symbols for ideas and organizing points. That’s free of charge for now but may change in the future. I heard them say there are brainstorming activities to submit through minister or brainstorer.com, for students to give study notes, researching ideas that they can collaborate on at a later time. The chime kept going off and they got a mailbag and opened it to find a letter from Australia from a Peter Hollard which he talked of pod casts he enjoyed as teacher. This pod cast could have kept the jokes and chiming to a minimum. The information was ok but I got frustrated hearing the same thing over and over again.

My fourth pod cast was from :
Teachers Are Talking Episode 14 from Thu, 2008-12-25 02:27 the hosts were Cheryl Lykowski and Susan van Gelder and Steve Dembo of the Educator Network
This pod cast focused on talk from ideas, practices, interests and blogging. The teacher started off the pod cast talking about snow days in long Island and Canada and their cars driving in snow. They spoke on schools they worked in liked or otherwise. One teacher compared working with kids to teachers acting like kindergarteners, who are afraid to do different things, afraid the mix up the environment in a class a bit.

I did enjoy Mr. Dembo talking about his experiences focusing on the classroom, especially with children with illnesses. He is no longer in the classroom he took a job in technology to network on a variety of areas.
He spoke on the empowerment of people and experiments to uplift technology in education.. The vast majority of the pod cast was that of Mr. Dembo and his own experiences. The pod cast could have been more informative.