emerging technology 3

So when I went to the wiki and looked at the list I couldn't believe that iTunes was a choice. So this will be my third and last emerging technology.

I hate apple products. I boycotted them the moment that the iPod came out. I don't follow trends and this was yet another example of the masses flocking to what commericals and other people tells everyone to buy.

I made sure that I would not go along with this and bought myself a mp3 player from a different company. I had some problems with it and it eventually broken, so I bought a second one. This one did the same thing as well.

I was reluctant to get an iPod becuause all my music was on my windows media player and I couldn't transfer it to iTunes very easily.

Sadly I was forced to get an iPod since all the other mp3 players were not realiable. I love my iPod and iTunes to go with it. I still don't have near the music that I did, but I get along just fine.

You can have playlists for anything imaginable, you can look up genres. And now they even have what is called genius that will find other music in your library that goes well with any song that you pick. I find this wonderful since I have a vast library with many different types of music and find it hard to search through everything to find all the same types of music.

The only downside to iTunes being that you cannot transfer music from any other device except an apple product unless you burn a CD. Also, you cannot transfer music unless it is on a CD or it is offered on iTunes. This does limit your choices and forces you to spend your money on apple verses any other company.

All in all, not everything can be perfect, but it gets the job done rather well.

Distance Learning

This is not a wiki that I found on the site, but I am a big advocate of this particular emerging technology. It is so simple to use. I actually researched this as a project for my educational psycholoy class last spring semester and will try to unload that powerpoint for anyone interested. Distance learning is exactly that, learning over a distance. I had used it in my high school, but until I started to research I didn't realize the possibilities! The most basic distance learning is just having a webcam. A teacher can have one set up in his/her classroom and link with another teacher in a nother state or just in the next room. The children can sit in their desks and talk back and forth learning about each other without having to leave the comfort of the classroom. Most amazingly, one can link with doctor offices, nursing homes, zoos, and more to get information from professionals without them having to make a special trip to your school. Other non-classroom ideas are teaching new things. If the school gets a new program, they can webcam from the office and someone can teach how to use the program over the internet instead of traveling to the school to teach everyone. I love this idea and plan to use it in my own classroom.
I help out at a school that links up with a school in the Middle East and the students are paired up with a students from the other school, they are allowed to email each other once a week and talk about whatever they want. The teachers teach the same units and send each other pictures and the like. For the whole year the students in Indiana get to be friends and learn together with students from a completely different continent.
Sadly, I cannot find the powerpoint. If I do at a later date I will be sure to add the link.

Random Blog

Today is October 15th and my fiancee graduated boot camp! My new marine is looking good and feeling proud. I wanted to give a big Ooh Rah shout out to any who serve as this is a happy moment in every one's life; the day boot camp is over!

Emerging Technology-Podcast

https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/candelli/mod 4 podcast.wav

Here you go guys, I hope you like it. I didn't really know what to say.

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Histoy Lesson

I am currently enrolled in History 105. Today I learned that on some teacher entrance exams they ask questions about the Boston Tea Party to see if teachers know the facts surrounding the American Revolution. I would never have thought they would go so in detail. My professor said that she has been told by former students that they were asked if the Tea Act of 1773 was about taxing. It was not, the Tea Act of 1773 was about giving the East India Company a monopoly on the tea trade because they were going under as a company. It was an old world bail out so to speak. Random lesson for the day to all the other soon-to-be teachers out there.