Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Synchoronous vs. Asynchronous

Synchronous communication
Direct communication, where all parties involved in the communication are present at the same time.
Examples- Telephone conversation, a company board meeting, a chat room, and Instant messaging.

Asynchronous Communication
Does not require that all people involved in the communication need to be present and available at the same time
Examples- E-mail, Discussion boards, text messaging.

Podcast Responses

1. What is a Podcast?

A podcast is a series of digital media files, usually digital audio or video, which is made available for download via web syndication.

2. Who creates the content?

Anyone from NOVA, NPR, CNN, NASA, and Discovery Channel are publishers. Universities use them for distant learning, or as a study aid. Many professors are putting their lectures as a study, museums and other organizations use them for educational purposes. Individual context of experts can be produced and Audio books are on podcasts.
3. Where do you find podcasts?

Online, on Ipods have them or any other personal media player, also you can download them just to your personal computer
From the Itunes store, Rhapsody, Odeo, Podcast Pickle, Yahoo- all these have online sites have podcasts!

5 Multimedia Elements

Question: What five multimedia elements are discussed?

The five Mulitmedia elements that are discussed are
  • graphics
  • animation
  • sound
  • video
  • text

Reflection 5#

What specific technologies did you learn about this semester that you think would be valuable to teach in your future classroom? why will this technology be valuable?

I learned how to a smartboard more efficently. It caused me to think different on how to use a smartboard for better lesson plans if I work in a school system. I also finally know how to use excel, I never knew how to use it before, and now that I know how. I'm sure I will use it in the later future. Also a new thing coming into ETPT was learning how to use a blog, before this class I never knew how to use one, let alone, I didnt even know what a blog is. And know that I what one is, I hope to keep using it in the near future. Also with powerpoint, I always knew how to use it, however, after this class, I am more efficent with the program and have a better use of it, in a more timely fashion. I hope to relay this information to other people soon!