Podcast

What? Today we discussed the various uses of podcasts in association with education. We realized what a great tool this will be in our classrooms to help inform our students and their families of activities and information about school events and announcements. We talked about using them with service announcements, emergency announcements and updates.

So What?By giving us the opportunity to make our own pod-casts we were able to record and download our individual pod-casts into our computer files, and then we were able to upload this podcast to our google sites. This was a fun activity that helped us know how we can use pod-casts in the classroom. We were able to understand the process this will help us as we become educators to be able to keep our classes communication open. I thought it was really neat to be able to record on a laptop and then transfer this into a podcast. I thought it would really be great to use this to study for the exams I am presently studying for, because by recording the information I can listen to it as I drive and as I commute to and from school. This is a very great tool which I will use.

Then What? I feel this is also a valuable tool to help keep our students informed of what is going on. I also think this would be a good tool to advertise for school events and service opportunities. As a parent I would love this option to be able to know what announcements are coming up, and to be able to check my teachers google site to see if I missed anything in my children's backpacks. As a student, especially in the older grades I would definitely use it to study for tests. As an educator I can record the information I want the students to learn, then they will be able to listen to this information as they go through out their day--I think that it's very useful to give students different ways to understand our study--through visual in class, then reinforcing that learning with the verbal pod casts I could have available for their use. I just think this would be a great way to give my students options, and the choice to use pod-casts and direct verbal instruction if that is how they reinforce their learning. Options are so important, because we all have different ways of understanding and learning, pod-casts just give our students another avenue for obtaining success. It is great!