Connecting with e-Learners Through Podcasting

By Heather Zink

July 20, 2010

Online instructors often struggle to find ways to connect with students on a consistent basis through a means other than written discussion such as forums and emails. In an online learning community where students are primarily reading a body of course material, the goal of an online instructor is often to establish a sense of connectedness between the student and the material. Words in a textbook or PowerPoint presentations do not provide enough engagement to ensure students are actively participating in their learning, therefore it is crucial to use additional modalities to facilitate connectedness.

By definition, a podcast is a series of digital content files that are released as episodes through the use of Web syndication or RSS feeds. The files can be audio or video, and—if crafted carefully—can create an environment similar to a face-to-face classroom, but with the advantages of availability, accessibility, and repetition. The podcast can be played over and over again until comprehension is achieved. As modern learners experience an increasing demand on their time, podcasting can facilitate a more flexible, mobile learning option.
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=131-1

1-Cúal cree usted que es el tópico a leer?
 Aparentemente el texto habla, segun el titulo y la imagen, de ondas que permiten a los profesores en linea conectarse para promover un aprendizaje.

2-Cual es la idea general del texto?
La implementación del podcast como herramient para facilitar la opción de un aprendizaje móvil.

3-Que palabras se repiten?
Online - Instructors - Students - Connect - Podcast

4-Que palabras se parecen al español?
Instructors - Students - Consistent - Discussion - Material - Presentations

5-Cuales son las palabras en negrita, el titulo, subtitulo o gráficos que te ayudaran a entender el texto?
El titulo:Connecting with e-Learners Through Podcasting

6-De que trata el texto?   

Los instructores en línea a menudo luchan por encontrar la manera de conectarse con los estudiantes sobre una base consistente a través de foros y correos electrónicos. Un podcast es una serie de archivos de contenido digital que se liberan como episodios a través del uso de la sindicación web. Los archivos pueden ser de audio o vídeo, cuidadosamente elaborados, pueden crear un entorno similar a un salón de clases cara a cara, pero con las ventajas de disponibilidad, accesibilidad, y la repetición.

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Lev Vygotsky

 

Vygotsky was born in Orsha, in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus) into a nonreligious Jewish family. He was influenced by his cousin David Vygodsky. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1917. Later, he worked at the Institute of Psychology (mid-1920s)and other educational, research and clinical institutions in Moscow, Leningrad, and Kharkov where he worked extensively on ideas about cognitive development. He died in 1934 in Moscow of tuberculosis at the age of 37.

Vygotsky introduced the notion of zone of proximal development, an innovative metaphor capable of describing not the actual, but the potential of human cognitive development. His work covered such diverse topics as the origin and the psychology of art, development of higher mental functions, philosophy of science and methodology of psychological research, the relation between learning and human development, concept formation, interrelation between language and thought development, play as a psychological phenomenon, the study of learning disabilities, and abnormal human development (aka defectology).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LSvygotsky.jpg

1-Utilizando una biografia de algún autor de tu area de experticia escribe 4 preguntas puntuales sobre fehas, sitios, etc.

1-Vygotsky's birthplace?
Vygotsky was born in Orsha, in the Russian Empire

2-Where and what year he graduated?
He graduated from Moscow State University in 1917

3-That covered his work?
His work covered such diverse topics as the origin and the psychology of art, the development of higher mental functions, philosophy of science and methodology of psychological research, the relationship between learning and human development, concept formation, the relationship between language and play development of thinking as a psychological phenomenon, the study of learning disabilities and abnormal human development

4-Where and when died Vygotsky?
He died in Moscow in 1934 of tuberculosis at the age of 37 years.