Congratulations on Completing the Course!

This will be your final blog posting for the course, which will serve as a summative reflection on your professional growth. Please post a “comment” in response to the following questions:

• Discuss what impact this course has had in your professional development including new perspectives you may have gained as a teacher and for students, as well as new ideas, skills, and knowledge. Have you grown as an education professional?

• What Web 2.0 tools do you think will have the most relevancy in teaching and learning for you and applying these tools in the curriculum? What are their benefits? Do you foresee any challenges in your particular educational setting in implementing these tools?

• Do you think this is a valuable course for other educators in K-12 and higher education (in-service teachers/faculty, pre-service teacher candidates, and graduate students) to take for their professional development? Please explain.

Keep blogging in the personal blog that you have created!

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Setting Up an RSS Feed Reader

In this course, you have set up an RSS feed reader so you can subscribe to RSS feeds of interest. You’ve also had the to opportunity to view the RSS feeds that your class members have subscribed to, as well as to explore RSS resources and aggregator services to provide you with a foundation for using RSS for teaching and learning. Reflecting on this experience can be helpful as you move forward in using RSS and an aggregator in your educational setting. Please post a "comment" in response to the following questions (and support your responses):

1. Describe your experience in setting up a Feed Reader and subscribing to RSS feeds. Was it a positive one? Were there challenges you had to overcome? Do you think subscribing to RSS feeds is useful for educational applications for both teachers and their students, as well as for professional development?
   
   
2. Which class participant's RSS Feed Reader page with subscriptions did you like the most? Refer to elements in the “RSS Feed Reader Rubric” to support your decision (include the URL).

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Creating an Educational Podcast

In this course, you have created an "educational podcast" for a unit of study that you teach in a K-12 or higher education curriculum content area or for professional development. You have also had the opportunity to view educational podcasts created by class members. Reflecting on this experience can be helpful as you move forward and plan to implement the use of podcasts in teaching and learning. Please post a "comment" in response to the following questions (and support your responses):

1. Describe your experience in creating an educational audio podcast. Was it a positive one? Were there challenges you had to overcome?
   
   
2. Which educational podcast did you like the most? Refer to elements in the "Podcast Rubric" to support your decision (include the Title of the podcast and URL).

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Educational Podcasts

In this course, you were given the opportunity to explore podcast education examples, resources, and tools to provide you with a foundation for thinking about using podcasting for teaching and learning. Please post a "comment" in response to the following questions (and support your responses):

1. Based on the podcasting resources that you explored in this session, discuss one podcasting education example, one podcasting resource, and one podcasting tool or hosting site that was most relevant and interesting to you as an educator (include webpage titles, authors/organizations, and URLs).
   
   
2. Can you think of specific podcast educational applications that would be worthwhile to use with students in a subject area that you teach?
   
   
3. Do you think podcasts are a useful Web 2.0 tool to engage the Net Generation in learning? (please explain)

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