Almost There

Today, was a very successful day. Christine and I decided to team teach our book "Friends" and we also decided not to podcast our questions, because both of us rather ask the questions ourselves. Other than that we got everything done that we wanted to, in addtion to finishing our lesson plan. All, we have to do now, is to type up the lesson plan itself, make up all the worksheets and rubrics, and print out all the materials needed for our lesson. I'm looking forward to teaching this lesson. :)

Decision Time

Christine and I will write and podcast our comprehension questions for our story, so that we will have two options when we do our lesson(s).
Today, we will first podcast the comprehension questions. Next, we will discuss whether we want to team teach or teach our story and lesson on our own. Once we figure out what we want to do, then we will start to plan our lesson(s).

Podacasting II

Friday, Christine and I did a lot better than our first attempt at podcasting. There were no technical difficulties at all and we were more composed in our reading. Alternating page by page reading is working really well for us and we're pretty sure that we got exactly what we wanted on Friday for our final read through of "Friends." Hopefully, Tuesday we will be able to finalize any sounds or pictures that we may want and pick the 5 comprehension questions that we liked the best and that we think will work well with what we want to do in our lessons. Overall, we almost there!

Pre-podcasting II

Today, Christine and I will try the same method of reading for our book "Friends." This method is that Christine will read the title of the book, the author and the first page, then I will read the second page of the book and we will keep alternating the reading page by page.
These past couple of days I did practice reading on my own to try and familiarize myself with the book, since I had never read it before Tuesday. I believe this has helped me pace my reading and to know the right words, instead of making up words as I read. I guess I will see the results today when we podcast. Hopefully, we can nail the reading today without any mistakes. :)

First Podcasting

I really like podcasting a lot. Both Christine and I were away last Friday, so I'm not able to compare or contrast this week to last week. However, I liked our reading style (page by page) it worked really well. The only thing that we both want to fix is to practice reading the book a little more and to compose ourselves while we are reading. Also, the only problem we had in the beginning of the podcasting was switching the microphone back and forth, because you could hear us switching it in the podcast. Our solution to this, is that the next time we read is for one person to hold the microphone and the other person to flip the pages. Overall, I think it was successful and I can't wait to finalize our work on Friday. :)

Pre-podcasting

I'm working with Christine DeMedici on the book "Friends" by Rob Lewis. We decided to read the book page by page our first time through. If we think we should change the reading style up after we're done, we'll make adjustments the next time around. I hope it works and I look forward to podcasting our book for the first time. Our introduction to podcasting link is: http://christinedemed.podomatic.com/entry/2009-09-22T07_08_21-07_00

Podcasting

I really don't know what podcasting is. I was introduced to podcasting in Test and Measurements, where we would listen to Dr. Luongo's expectations/lessons for our class. I want to learn what podcasting really is and how to use it. From the little bit that I know of podcasting I think the advantages of podcasting are that you can listen to a lesson over and over again, refer to it or use that lesson as many times as you want and you don't have to be in a classroom to access podcasting. The only drawback about podcasting that I know at this point may be that it isn't easy to access equipment to actually do the podcasting.

My general pre-podcasting prediction is that it's going to be different, but fun. I think it will probably be something that I would incorporate in my lessons someday. I also, think that this is where technology in the classroom is headed, so it will be great exposure.