C4Ta #3 Wesley Fryer - Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Summary

Wesley Fryer had an Interview with Chris Davis on "Journeys in Podcasting" Project. Fryer and Davis are both excited about podcasting, using it in the classrooms and using it to show other teachers what they are working on. The Journey in Podcasting Project is about people documenting projects and activities around campus, researching them and video casting them. The podcasters reach out to bigger names in education and use them as a type of research to incorporate in the podcasts. Davis states that after doing a video, a group gets together and discusses what needs to be added to it. It surprised him how much of a positive experience it has been making the podcasts.

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Comment
I thought this was an interesting concept for a blog. Instead of reading an article, there is a description and then a video. I think Journeys in Podcasting is a cool idea, how it is audio or video. I also like how they integrated ideas from highly intelligent thinkers in the education field. I will definitely be listening to some of the podcasts in my future.




Summary

Amazing Animated Space Films: Wanderers and New Horizons is an article about space videos shared with Wesley Fryer. I think sharing these videos with elementary school students would be really useful. The thought of space is a hard concept to grasp and looking at pictures does not do a student much good. However, watching a video and feeling like you are zooming through space really grasps a student's interests. Also, each video is educational; they are about events that have happened or are going to happen, For example, one video is about an upcoming mission to Pluto.

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I really liked these videos. As an elementary school teacher, I will be teaching science, so having these resources shared by other teachers is helpful. I thought the videos were educational and will be a good tool to use. I liked looking at Wesley Fryer's blog because he shared a lot of resources that he and other teachers use in their classrooms.