Podcast favorites

    Each week for our DED 318 course we were also required to listen to a Podcast and reflect on its usefulness to us as educators. One very influential person who does incredibly relevant Podcasts is Wesley Fryer, out of Edmond, Oklahoma. His Podcast Moving at the Speed of Creativity gives listeners current news about technology within the field of education. He shares hundreds of useful and relevant tools that can allow teachers to enhance their lessons thus increasing their students' engagement. In his latest Podcast he discusses the ever-present iPad. This piece of technology is rapidly becoming the go to piece of hardware for classes because of the millions of applications it allows users to download for nearly any subject. Also, with a size that is just under 2 pounds in weight, it combines the endless possibilities of a Macbook with the convenience of something that can be taken everywhere with being too cumbersome, or heavy.
    In another Podcast he describes  Dr. Carl Owens' presentation, "Cool Tools for the Classroom," at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference in Jackson on February 8th. Carl is a Professor and the Director of Technology at the College of Education, Tennessee Technological University. These types of Podcasts Fryer presents are just as important as those that explain new technologies. One of Fryer's greatest attributes is he is global in his thinking and gives praise and recognition to those teachers he thinks are doing great things in their classrooms with technology. He is upbeat and enthusiastic with his Podcasts and I think everyone should listen.