Podcasts for Education
Here's an assorted collection of podcasts for and about educational use and technology, including audio files for the Black History Month Project.
Black History Project & Quotes 1-10
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Choose two (or three) quotes that you connect to or which appeals to you. Write a paragraph (one each) to describe your connection with the quotes. Why these quotes? How does this quote reflect your own feelings and beliefs? Feel free to write a reflection that disagrees with a quote, but be sure to choose at least one that you do connect with in a positive way, or inspires you. You will enter your paragraph in your class blog, and read and comment on two of your classmates reflections as well.
1. I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
2. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
3. Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
4. People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
5. You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.
6. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
7. The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
8. There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
9. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
10. Our nation is a rainbow—red, yellow, brown, black, and white—and we're all precious in God's sight.
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Friday, Sep 28, 2007Quotes 11-20 for Black History Project
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11. I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
12. Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
13. My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?
14. Freedom is never given; it is won.
15. When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery, 1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
16. Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
17. We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
18. The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now.
19. There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution...
20. Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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Friday, Sep 28, 2007Quotes 21-30 for Black History Project
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21. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminshes fear.
22. Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
23. I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
24. Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
25. The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
26. Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
27. When you educate a man you educate an individual, but when you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
28. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
29. It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.
30. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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Wednesday, Sep 26, 2007Development of the Internet and WWW
(16 downloads)Download this episode (10 min)
This essay presents a brief history of the development of the Internet and World Wide Web.
The achievements and awards of Tim Berners Lee and his contribution to the birth of the WWW is highlighted.
The written essay can be found online at the Portfolio Page of www.LynneMBailey.com .
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Sunday, Jul 08, 2007Word Building with Podcasts
(6 downloads)Download this episode (4 min)
Many high schools have an advisory system which provides for supplementary student coaching and advisement. This podcast offers an activity idea for use with 10th and 11th grade students, most of whom will be taking the PSAT and SAT exams. I suggest using podcasts and wikis to engage them in building their vocabularies.
