WEEK 6: Vidcasts

What?-

This week in class we were instructed on how to create a vidcast of for our classes. Dave and I got to brainstorm during class time and create our plan of attack to complete this assignment. Our cooperating teacher wants us to create a grammar vidcast dealing with coma rules. We are going to create the most bad ass vidcast and of course it will be funny.

So What?-

This vidcast training is going to be an awesome addition to my teaching style. I am excited to create our vidcast and mess around with all of the technical dynamics of it so that I can create more vidcasts in the future. Grammar is pretty lame to learn and even teach sometimes, so I think that making entertaining vidcasts will really help my classes and I get through some of the technical parts or writing. I also think that my colleagues can benefit from my vidcasts because I can share them with them or visa versa if they create great lesson plans and grammar exercises too. Sharing lesson plans and ideas is something that I am excited to do as a new teacher. I find it so interesting to see how other teachers teach certain parts of the curriculum because I can gather or build off of their ideas. I also think vidcasts will be something that makes me valuable as a new teacher because it will be able to tap into so many different kinds of students and learning styles.

Now What?-

I know that students these days are very big on technology and media in their personal and learning lives. They will love vidcasts in my classroom, I know it! I am truly so excited to get in the classroom and I feel that learning all of this technology that I can use in my classroom makes me that much more confident that I will be a great teacher. I observe a lot of teachers at the school I work at, and I always find it so interesting to see how much more involved in learning the students are in the classrooms that have technology used in them in some way, shape or form. Students love youtube.com and teachers that use their students interest in youtube.com as an advantage in their classroom really get a great reception from their students. I hope to help teachers in my English department at my future school use more technology in their lesson plans because I think that students will love our style and we will have more students getting involved in reading and writing. I really am just pumped to finally get to work and teach!