Mobile Technologies - Wk 4

Mobile Technology

Soundcloud is a mobile and desktop application that provides you with the feasibility to upload and download podcasts. Soundcloud can be accessed through: www.soundcloud.com.  The podcasts can be filtered by topic or category. The advantages of using podcasts to educators are unlimited. Educators can record their classroom time and share it with learners or other educators. This provides users to go back to discussion time. Even the educator himself can access prior lessons to see the flow of the discussion and to plan for future adjustments.

In addition, and according to www.educatorstechnology.com, podcasts can provide an important research tool for learners.  Prior to reading about podcasts, I always saw them on my desktop and never really thought about using them. I can now benefit from them a lot.

I will use soundcloud in order to record my classes which learners can access and especially those who could not attend class. In addition, I will use soundcloud to record and share all seminars that I attend, which I will share with my learners as well. I work in a field where the resources are considered limited and the knowledge is available through limited individuals. Thus sharing this  would be a helpful idea.

Another mobile technology is KO-SU which can be reached through www.ko-su.com. With this application, users can create mobile activities, set up a class, achieve tasks, review answers and download results. All this can be done using the mobile and the desktop.

I chose this application because I believe that class time shall be used to its ultimate time without any unwanted interruptions. In addition, the educator shall provide room for all learners to voice their opinion on questions and ideas.

This application provides me with lots of room to my learners participate in my class. I will use it to gather opinions on certain topics prior to my class. I want to know what the majority of class thinks about a certain topic.

Reference:

Top 4 tools to Create and Share Podcasts with your students. Educational technology and Mobile Learning retrieved on Sept 24, 2013 from http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/09/top-4-tools-to-create-and-share.html