When I began thinking about this assignment, I was immediately reminded of a conversation that occured with Dr. Steve Gratz who is the executive secretary for the Ohio FFA.
Dr. Gratz makes no effort to hide his love of advancing technology and how those advancements might be integrated into agricultural education classrooms. One of his techology plugs, however, really struck me as interesting.
His theory was, that if you were instructing a unit on forestry, yet you are far from being a forestry wiz, why not sit your kids down in front of a computer and have them listen to an instructional unit by another ag teach who is a forestry genuis if you will. You, as the acutally instructor, would then serve as the facilitator of the information. Dr. Gratz felt that this would allow instruction to be strenghtened by allowing teachers to "bring" experts into the classroom, without actually physically bringing the expert into the class.
The ease of podcast would also allow for many programs to easily access the information in the classroom, but students could also subscribe to the cast and listen at home.
I think this is an extremely interesting take on a media that so many people are involved with. I'm not sure if it will ever catch on, but it is definitely something to think about in the future as we begin our own programs!
For more, check out the following website: http://oregonstate.edu/uesp/podcast.htm
**It was created by students and faculty at the University of Oregon and one of the podcast is actually titled "agricultural sciences" and also there is one titled "forestry"
--Hilary Bailey
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