Sunday, February 1, 2009

PODCASTS: Personal on Demand

PODCASTS - What a great idea!
Watch the video below to learn what a podcast is and how one uses a podcast.


How did I use podcast as an educator?

At the beginning of the year I was on maternity leave and podcasts were an amazing tool to utilize during my leave. I was able to create lessons, post them on my podcast website, and leave it to my long term substitute teacher to simply press play or direct my students to my website.

I have also used podcasts to create "radio shows" with my students. My eleventh grade English classes created stories and then recorded them using the free downloadable program called "Audacity" and then we uploaded those stories to my podcast website. The stories were available for all to hear and I was able to create lessons based off their own stories - and the best part they didn't have to be in class to hear them! They could simply go to my website and download them onto their mp3 players. The possibilities are endless - what's your ideas?

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