Weekly Report & Reflection 11

Hello bloggers!

(Minter, 2016)

This week’s session is the second last week of ADED 1P32! I was excited to learn more tools this week that I have not heard of before. I explored and got to use both Podcasts and Screencasts. For those of you like myself that have not learned about these tools, a post cast is typically an audio file that you can create your self via another tool called sound cloud where you can then embed the clip you created into a webpage of your choice. Where as a screencast is basically a digital recording of your computer screen and is often used along with an audio narrative. There are several tools that branch out of these two recourses and the one I chose to focus on this week was soundcould. If you go to my pages you can see the small clip that I created of my own. Soundcloud allowed me to create my own clip, stop and start it while I was recording, and also allowed me to upload and share my own audio file all in one place. All I had to do was create a log in and you automatically get to start uploading files, making your own, and even following other people to hear their podcasts. If you want to know more about how sound cloud works check out this YouTube video! 

Now that I found this awesome tool for creating my own podcast I wanted to look at tools that I could use to create a screencast. I decided to use “Screenr” which is a neat tool that allows you to make videos on your computer without audio narration. This website is really simple to use and a huge benefit to it is that you don’t have to download any extra things on to your computer when creating your screencast.  If you want to learn more about the website or start making your own screen cast click on this link! https://www.screenr.com/ . I could definitely fit screenr and soundcloud into my personal learning environment under “create” however, I don’t believe that I will use it much as a digital learner. Both of these tools allow me to create your own personal and unique clips however you want, wherever you want, and to your sound preference. I think this week’s session was a different learning mile and I think others should definitely explore these tools.
Before you go, I thought id also share another blog from my feedly reader that I found really interesting this week! Since Finals are fast approaching here are some study tips from Study Motivation blogger. Hope you enjoy planning for your deadlines! 

Thanks for reading!

Until next week!

-Jess