Most web conferences that I have attended, or listened to the recordings of, have a lot of technical difficulty that causes me to be come frustrated. There are a lot of "I cannot see you," "I cannot hear you," "Can you see me?" from the participant's side of the conference. I find this frustrating because I am not engaged, but instead, just a viewer. This makes me think about the students in my classroom. How many times have they been just a viewer of something that I have created, such as a PowerPoint, or something that other students have created. In my classroom, I love project presentation day! But as the years have gone by I have found that my students are more and more apathetic about project presentation day. Therefore I am proposing a remedy to this situation by having my students publish their creations online or share their creation with another group for feedback and critiques. My role will be to funnel the critiques into relevant and focused topics.
Also on this web conference I received information about the previous assignment and the nest assignment. I learned that my making a podcast was alright even though the assignment sheet said to make a video podcast, which is called a vodcast. On the critical side, I now believe that I made my podcast too long and may have to trim more with editing, but that shouldn't be an issue because I learned a lot about the editing software while using it.
And the last thing that I learned from this web conference is that there are specific resources on the Resource section of our course ware that will help us with the group project. I had been quite confused because both of my mentors had to do public service announcements for their group project, but we are doing a lesson. So, having some referencing really helped to cut my confusion.
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