Breaking+Hearing+Barriers+with+Vodcasting

Breaking Hearing Barriers with Vodcasting Hearing impairments hinder the educational process for many of our students. Hearing impaired students struggle to understand curriculum, course concepts, and classroom and assignment procedures without any modification or assistive tools. Image not being able to hear what it being discussed, classroom lectures, presentations, or other information shared in a classroom setting. These are massive hearing barriers that some of our students must overcome. These hearing barriers can drastically hinder the educational process of these students. However with the introduction of modern technology and the vast array of technological tools such as Web 2.0 tools, these hearing impaired learners can achieve and succeed at a high rate in their given educational setting.

One of the new Web 2.0 educational tools that can be incorporated into the learning process is called vodcasting. Vodcasting is extremely similar to podcasting. Many teachers and educators create podcasts for their given lessons, lectures, or assignments. These podcasts are recorded sound bits of course materials. These podcasts are great for students, but obviously they do not assist hearing impaired students. Vodcasting can help these students overcome their hearing barriers as vodcasts are a supplement to podcasting. Vodcasting is similar to podcastings as vodcasting is recording a video as oppose to a sound. Teachers could create a vodcast for their hearing impaired students of a given lecture or assignment that is similar to their podcasts. The vodcast would be the same material as the podcast, but only in sign language for the hearing impaired learner. This would allow hearing impaired students to overcome their barriers using the Web 2.0 tool of vodcasting.

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