I have friends who have used podcasts but have never tried doing it myself. It seems a bit daunting to me, frankly. I looked at the material, found the video on podcasting from New Zealand to be amusing, but do not see myself doing this in the near future. I had not looked at Vimeo before, and found it rather interesting source of videos, but I'm not sure how it differs from YouTube really. I also looked at Jing. I could see that this would be useful in terms of showing students how to do certain things. Indeed, having just discovered that my senior honors students didn't know how to do hanging indent on Word, I can see that being able to record a little screencast of me doing it might be useful to the students (and make my life easier, too). So maybe I'll think about doing that for my history methods class in the fall. I know about Khan academy, and hadn't thought much about how this type of teaching might be useful for history, but this could be one way (and simple enough that I might be able to actually do it!).
I looked on Vimeo for education related videos and didn't really find anything that interested me (in the first few pages). So I turned to YouTube, the old reliable and found this video called The Higher Education Bubble. It uses cartoon drawing animation to take on the high cost of education and the increasingly higher amounts of student debt that our graduates are accumulating. This is something that really bothers me, particularly as there is no way to get rid of this debt, even if you declare bankruptcy. A bubble indeed, I think. I am going to try to embed it; I hope it will be more successful than the attempt to embed the slide show!
hope it works.
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