February 17th-Vidcast Reflection

I did my vidcast with Janessa and we decided to do a PSA for D.A.R.E, which stands for drug abuse resistance education. 

The core curriculum is for Health Education, 4th grade standard 2: The students will adopt health-promoting and risk-reducing behaviors to prevent substance abuse.

We chose to do promote drug awareness to young students becuase it is something that is really affecting young people today.  As they get older they will come face to face with these substances and we want them to be aware and know the affects of drugs and have a basic knowledge of what each of them are so that they will be prepared to say "no" when the opportunity presents itself to them.  Janessa and I both enjoyed learning about the harmful affects of drugs through the D.A.R.E. program when we were in elementary school.

Some drawbacks in a classroom to using vidcasts are for the really shy kids that you have in your class, they probably won't want to be put on the spot where they have to be recorded and having other people see them.  Other then that I do not see any other drawbacks.

I will definitely use vidcasts in the future.  I think they are a lot of fun and they are a great way for students to go out on their own and do the research.  It is learning withouth the students really knowing it.  It is also fun to have their peers see them as well as family members if they would like.  You can use vidcasts in a lot of different ways to present information.

February 10th-Vidcasts

In class today we learned about vidcasts.  We were taught what tools we can use to make the vidcast as well as how to upload it onto our computeres then on to our class website or onto youtube.

Right now it doesn't affect my life a whole lot, I am not one to really shoot videos and upload them onto youtube or anything like that, but I really enjoy doing things like this.  This will not only help with this class, but there could be opportunities to use a vidcast in another class or if I do ever decide to post something on youtube.

When I have my own classroom I think that this will be a lot of fun to do with my students.  If there is a certain subject that may not be very fun to ever learn about or teach this would be a great opportunity to have my students go out and learn about the subject on their own then do a vidcast on it.  They can show it to their classmates so they can learn from each other and I think that this is a great formative assessment to see if they really know the subject.