PODCAST #1: Thoughts About Internet Texts, Teacher Collaboration, Wikis, and More

So as it turns out, my voice recorder doesn’t like a hookup through a USB hub, so as soon as I connected it directly, I got it working. I’m still not sure how I feel about Olympus and their product right now though. The quality is a little low on the recording also, so I’m going to try to fix that for the next podcast.

But the podcast.

You can access it [here].

NOTE: I refer to several links during the podcast, which are located at the bottom of my blogroll, under Podcast #1. I am also listing them at the bottom of this page.

Also, link three seems to switch locations from time to time, so when the page comes up, you may have to click on an addition link and you will be redirected.

I’m having some issues with getting a feed going also.

Abstract:

The internet can be a powerful learning tool, but it also is a storehouse for millions of cluttered and dubious documents. How can educators tap in to this power while avoiding the pitfalls?

It is easy to put trust in a textbook, such as a name-brand text from a company like Prentice-Hall or Hartcourt Brace. These companies have a track record. They are established as publishers. Currently there are very few websites with this much credibility, possibly due to the fact that, quite literally, there is no paper-trail. Even websites such as Wikipedia, a dictionary written by millions of the world’s brightest, cannot be relied on as scholarly 100% of the time, despite the fact that the website has covered more articles and information in five years then any book-bound encyclopedia to date.

This podcast discusses the new possibilities that the internet brings to education, as well as the (currently) unsurmountable disadvantages to scholarly information on the internet.

External Links:

[1] My internet textbook

[2] Listing of Linux Open Source Releases

[3] Wikipedia, Current Accuracy Disputes

[4] Introduction to Editing Wikipedia