My EDM 310 Blog Assignments are Now Complete

Although all of my blogs may not have always been on time due to technical difficulties, I finally got them all finished with a day to spare. I am thankful I have this page to show off to people when they ask me what I did this semester. I had a great time with everyone in my class and enjoyed spending every Thursday night with them. Merry Christmas everyone and I hope I have more classes with all of you at some point in the future!

What I Learned?

I cannot begin to explain the things I learned in this EDM 310 class. When I tell my friends I have to go home to write a blog for a class they look at me like I am crazy. I am glad I have this blog containing all of my evidence of what I have learned in this class. This was my first Education class to take and I must say I was nervous at the beginning but I think I ended up doing fairly well in this class. I believe the most interesting thing I learned was all the things that can be done with a Google Account. Before this class I did not have a g-mail address, which now I use for almost everything. I also did not have a personalized iGoogle page of my own that allows me to get my daily horoscope, look at movie times, check my e-mail, and get a new Seinfield quote everyday ALL ON ONE PAGE! I believe learning how to create documents such as presentations, papers, and spreadsheets on Google was also a very useful skill I am thankful to have learned. Those are only the things I learned that help with my personal life. The amount of things I have learned that can be helpful in the classroom are endless. Not only to mention the Google Documents, but the blog I am typing on write now is also associated with Google. Blogging and podcasts can be used in endless amounts of ways in education as you can read about in many of my previous blogs.

Duke University- Center for Documentary Studies

The podcast I listened to on iTunes was "South in Black and White" by Tim Tyson and Tom Ranken. The two men are discussing how we live in a world today where they think it is ok to discuss things that happened in the past. They are wanting people to understand and think outside of the box about some of these racial issues (such as the cross burning discussed in the podcast) instead of seeing it as evil. They discuss the importance of exploring history and how it influences us in many ways such as liturature, art, and music. I believe they stress the point that they are not teaching the course to critcize or start drama but to get people to look at things from different perspectives, something my history teacher has been encouraging us all semester to do.

The second podcast I listened to was "Marilou (Project Hope)" by Libby Conn. After listening to this podcast I understand now that these are supposed to be videos but unfortunantly mine are not working. This podcast is about a woman named Marilou who starts out by showing a scar on her body and explaining the horrible things that she has lived through. Libby Conn (the narrorator) goes on to explain Marilou's battle with her mother's schizophrenia. After many of her mother's violent outbreaks she was forced to live on the streets of Boston to escape her mother's physical abuse. The podcast goes back and forth from Libby interviewing Marilou about the life she lived due to her mother's disorder.