Competency 3--Pod

Podscope search engine lead me to The Teachers' Podcast at www.teacherspodcast.org. Here Drs. Kathy King and Mark Gura share ways to add new technology into the classroom. Included in these discussions are concerns about intellectual rights in the sharing of information on the Internet. Information literacy is a topic of much discussion. For example, one podcast concerned the digitization of notes given in a classroom lecture and the ethical dilemma of the intellectual rights of the professor versus the students' sharing of notes. Another broadcast looked at the freeing of classroom time by video taping lectures available on line. This is occurring in some secondary classrooms today. Though not specifically discussing research methods and not limited to secondary school libraries, the site is certainly looking at the digitalization of information and its proper use, and that is of concern to anyone working in a research process.