This week is our final blog post and I can't believe how fast the term went by. We had to explore a webcasting tool this week for ADED, and I chose Garageband since I have a Mac. I have used Garageband previously for school projects and I found that it was a great tool for both school and recreation! Garageband is easy enough to use if you are trying to create a simple but good video, and it also allows you to do much more complex stuff if you want. Even though I had used Garageband before, I had never made a podcast. Actually, I didn't even really know what a podcast was until this week! Creating a podcast through a webcasting tool, such as Garageband, is a great way to share information in the digital world. Podcasts are more complex and interesting sources of information that can include videos, voice clips, images etcetera all in one source. With children and learning becoming more and more involved and evolved in the technology world, learning is no longer associated with being boring and involving a ton of reading and textbooks. Instead, resources like podcasts are becoming extremely popular. Therefore, being able to create and find podcasts really enhances your ability in the digital world, and can contribute greatly to your learning.
Webcasting tools obviously differ drastically from the traditional learning tools, such as books, but they also differ from the other tools that we've learned about in ADED this term. Many of the tools we have learned about can be very impersonal, and you really have no idea who you are learning from or who is learning from you! The Internet allows everyone to be hidden behind a computer screen and remain anonymous basically. Once something is put up on the Internet it gets thrown into an enormous database with everything else and it all just becomes a blur of information to the users. However, podcasts or other resources created through Garageband, for example, allow the creator to show themselves and make it more personal. Podcasts create a more real life and traditional learning environment compared to blogs or wikis, while still utilizing the digital world. I personally really like this about webcasting tools compared to the other tools, hence, I would definitely add it to my PLE.
As I mentioned, Garageband is great for both learning and recreation purposes, and can even mix both of them! An article I found on Feedly this week discussed some of the best apps for children, which I thought was interesting because children are being exposed to technology and the digital world at a much younger age now and there are so many apps that are being developed specially for them. One of the apps mentioned in the article was Garageband, due to its musical aspects, which goes to show the many uses of Garageband.
Jesse
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