With Blackboard down for 3+ days, it's impossible to get our work done. I realize that some of you may not have time in the coming weeks to make up the work you missed due to the outage this week. You may not have even finished the assistive tech wiki page that was due this week.
Here is your homework for this week:
1. Configure and install audacity. Or, if you have another digital audio recording program that you prefer, you may use it. I sent help files out with the email on class cancellation.
2. Create a 20-40 sec audio recording (mp3 format on what you did instead of class on Monday night. Email it to me.
3. Create a 1-2 minute digital audio recording about your assistive technology project. Post it to the discussion board when Blackboard comes back up.
4. Peer review the assistive technology wiki pages of your group members. Provide feedback in the comments area of the wiki page. I'd like you to use the "2 stars and a wish" protocol: describe 2 "stars" - things you liked in the presentation and make a wish of something you have liked to have seen or seen differently.
5. Follow the blogs as you've been doing.
I was going to ask you to research educational uses of podcasts, but I think this will wait. We didn't get to talk about podcasts in class on Monday. Podcasts, in brief, are audio recordings that come via an rss-feed type mechanism. Remember RSS? Really simple syndication?
We were also going to talk about questioning and feedback strategies for peer review on Monday. 2 stars and a wish, which I learned in a 4/5/6 multi-grade classroom is a good model, though, for peer feedback.
If anyone has trouble with the initial audacity assignment, let me know.
