Articles I found concerning podcasts

The first podcast I reviewed was: "Student's Perceptions of You Tube Usage in the College Classroom." Shonna L. Snyder, Sloan Christine Burke, USA

You Tube is an Internet application in which people can upload, share, and watch videos. Technology such as You Tube in the classroom could prove to be an asset in meeting the educational needs of our generation. Technology in the classroom has come a long way. Growing advances in video technology and communication tools brought on by the Internet in the past decade have caused educators to consider their benefits as classroom tools.

You Tube, has quickly become a communication platform on the Internet . You Tube, Instant Messaging, MySpace, and Facebook are used mainly as a social communication. By using a variety of instructional methods and learning activities in the classroom or via distance education courses, an enriched learning environment is created for the student (Beldarrain, 2006).

College students are using the Internet at much higher rates compared to other populations. Students check email, download music files, and use instant messages all the time for educational purposes. College students are using the latest communication technology on the Internet such as chat rooms, blogs, Clearly college students are in the using the most up-to-date Internet technologies You Tube, can be beneficial to a classroom learning experience.


My second podcast review was : Student's ‘Evolving’ Use of Technology
By: Insidehighered news

We all know that we spent a significant amount time on the Internet for any given purpose. Studies show that the use of Face book and other social networking sites are on the rise. So are students using websites now for education or social platforms?

More and more it seems that for communication purposes such as: E-mail, Web sites, message boards and Blackboard are ways of connecting globally. Information technology and instructional technology are used daily, but are these methods practical for all class types? If a teacher can teach a class productively, it can be done with or without Information Technology. So it really boils down to how it is implemented in the class and how we as upcoming teachers can make our classes equally productive with the changing technology advances. We should keep the old days in mind when computers were not such a big issue and just use it as a tool not as a factor.