Podcast

E200

This the Link to my Podcst that I uploaded using Audacity. This may have been the most difficult Emerging Technology this semester. Audacity is a lot like stuff I've used in the past because I used to be a Radio and Television Major and had to use Audio Editing technology quite often. SO I thought it would be easy. But it was actually hard to get used to again because you had to figure out what icons to use and which effects did what to get your project up and running. BUt Once I got going it seemed to flow smoothly until I tried to convert it to and MP3 and then it got hairy. I probably tried downlanded LAME maybe 7 times before I finally was able to figure it out and make it into a MP3 and then upload it. How I uploaded it was through podbean because it seemed like the most accessible and easy way to upload my podcast. I think this technology is actually kinda fickle at times and tedicous but once you get the hang of it it could turn out to make a presentation awesome:)

Using RSS Feeds

I have to admit, at the beginning of this exercise I thought it was going to be kinda pointless to do but as I acrewed all the sites I was going to use I started figuring out how long it took to get to each one of them and now with this new technology I don't have to search all over the web for the info that I need. I am sure I will use this a lot in the future to keep tabs on many of the things I am intrested in. This technology makes everything very simple, and if I were to keep this as my homepage, I would almost never need to leave my home screen, it is that awesome!

Delicous Account

http://www.delicious.com/stmizzou

MonkeyOn-2nd Emergent Technology

The Communication software that I used for my 2nd Emerging technology was MonkeyOn. Monkey on is a software that sends email remainders to friends, and also to yourself about things that need to get accomplishe by a certain date. For people like me who seem to procrastinate unless there is a time table, this is a great software to use. Its true that you could just as easily send an email to a person to remind them. But I think this is a whole lot less informal than a email. Also the thing about an email is that once its sent theres no getting it back, so like if an event changes you have to go in a and write another email explaining why the date has changed. But if you use MonkeyOn you can "kill" a messge, which means to stop it before it gets to the recipient on a certain date.

For instance, if you were a teacher and you had your class using this account, and you had originally set your MonkeyOn to remind the students of a upcoming project in advance but wanted to push back the date because for needed to be covered in class for the students to be able to correctly complete the assignment, you could simply kill the assignment before it got sent to the student and the students will never know that you switched the dates, and that holds up your credibility, i think, more as a teacher.

How I used it for me was that I sent myself, my midterm sceduele this week, as well my work sceduele to my parents, who are always never hear me when I tell them. So now they have no excuse! I think this technology will help me become more organized and self-suffciant in the future.

http://monkeyon.com/monkeys/sent

This is how I sent the messeges to my parents.

Photo Share(Roxio PhotoShow)

The photo technology the I decided to use was Photoshare by Roxio. What it does is it takes photos and puts them in a slide show format for you. You can add sound, and captions, as well as a lot of other cool things like even thte format you want the pictures displayed, its actually rather cool. I think in teaching it would become helpful if you trying to help your kids get visual sense of what you are trying to teach in a fun and cool way.

It is very easy to use, you just upload the phots all at once and you are ready to start adding things to your photo's. Everything is easy to adjust and if you don't like somehting you can always remove it, I think its wonderful and totally user freindly, the only downside is that there are a whole lot of other things you can do with it if you upgrade and for me it seemed a little pricey, 39.99.

Some tips I would suggest, don't get overwhelmed by all that is available in the application, find something that suits you and decide on that simplicity. Don't over do it, because too much of a good thing is, well, you know, too much.

Online class presentation

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