Weekly Reflection Post #11

Hello Bloggers!
This week I want to address a few questions asked in the online module.

• What did you learn/notice in your exploitation of webcasting tools? How will these tools be useful in your educational activities?

Watching the What is Podcasting video from CNN was very interesting! This video makes a comment that podcasts are directly downloaded and available to people over the internet. In comparison to broadcasting I think podcasting is more up to date with the digital world when it comes to the fact that you can listen to the podcast whenever you please, while broadcasting radio is live and you can miss a show if you don't have the radio on at the proper time. 

Daniel Filho. (Jan 17 2006) Podcast Normal [Online image]
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Webcasting tools I explored this week included RecordMP3, and GarageBand. I am familiar with these tools but I haven't really used them in the past. RecordMP3 was so simple to use, you could just press record, stop, and play and than download your voice file. Because I have a macbook GarageBand was easily available to me as it was already downloaded on my computer. This tool was much more technical than RecordMP3 because it had many more features for your podcast that you could play with and adjust. 

These tools are cool and I think can be somewhat useful in educational activities for the purpose to creating a webcast that maybe gives an explanation to students about the topics they are learning about. Something I have also enjoyed about podcasts is that I have had online textbooks that give voice files of chapters, that way I can listen to a chapter rather than reading one. This is something I love when it comes to educational purposes for podcasts! It helps a lot with studying.

As for personal use, I love broadcasted radio when I am in the car in the morning driving to school. However, I don't come home and listen to the radio ever so I think podcasting isn't something that is attractive to me. Rather than going online and listening to podcasts I would prefer to watch a video. Visuals rather than voice is my personal preference in this sense! I also think that as for creating my own podcasts, I would rather use text than my voice. If i were to ever use my voice and share it I wouldn't use the tools above I would probably use my phones voice record app.

• What are you learning about becoming a digital citizen? What have you learned about protecting your own artistic works in a digital society?

In becoming a digital citizen not only is it important to properly give credit to others work but you should also give credit to your own. Protecting your own artistic rights is something that I have learned about this week. I was able to read the article How to Protect Your Artistic Works With a Creative Commons License. This article was very informative for me and not only spoke about what a CC license is but why you might want one and the different ones available in terms of what you want to protect and what rights you are willing to give to others. I also completed a hands-on task and added a creative commons license of my own to this blog. Go to the bottoms of the page and you can see it!

• Are you able to connect one or more items from your Feedly Reader to your learning?

Again, browsing through my Feedly I found another great article. This article stood out to me because it's relevant to my learning in this course. Social media has been a part of my digital footprint for many years and I think as a digital citizen I rely on social media today whether it's to keep up with friends, celebrities, or companies I am interested in. This article provides four tips on How to Build Your Brand Name Through Social Media.  If any of you are entrepreneurs or aspiring to be, these tips are great for how to use social media platforms to your advantage. Now, although this article is directed towards businesses brands I think that these tips can be helpful for individuals personal social media sites too. We ourselves are a personal brand and in a digital society should market ourselves towards potential job opportunities and what not. I think it is interesting to use these tips from a personal perspective as well.