Podcast

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Created by Diana Oblinger (EDUCAUSE) on January 7, 2006

http://www.educause.edu/blog/dianao/PodcastingintheClassroomEDUCAU/165531

Wow!! What a great idea. This person interviewed a teacher David Gilbert in Marymount Manhattan College who allowed his students to create a podcast for people to download before entering a New York Museum known as Art Mobs. Not only were the students extremely excited about doing this they were showing ownership on their work. They wanted to make sure that it was the best that they could do because it was going to be heard by many different people. Just imagine, taking your students on a field trip and letting them all have an iPod to listen to all the important parts of the field trip that you want them to know. You don’t have to worry about interruptions or forgetting what you wanted to say. It is all ready to go when you get there. Your students would get so much more out of the experience instead of just reading the information they can actually hear it as they are there looking at it.

It also talked about how a teacher used it and added other media such as slide shows and URLS. A lot of podcasting is being integrated in colleges. I could definitely see how it would be beneficial. You can listen while you are driving, walking, at the gym or even at the grocery store. All you need is a computer to produce a podcast. A lot of the software is free to use.

For me the most frustrating aspect of this class is researching things. It is fun and exciting but it is very time consuming. I took at least 30 minutes just looking for a podcast that I wanted to review for this blog assignment. I was amazed at what I found. I had never even heard of podcasting.  I listened to the 13 min long podcast four times. That is another great feature of podcasting. You can go back, review and listen or view as many times as you want or need to. What a great way to get students involved with something that they love and are already accustomed to, technology. I chose this podcast because it gave a new idea on podcasting, being able to use them on a field trip. If you listen to this podcast you will hear of more than one way that you can integrate podcast in the classroom.

I am definitely excited about podcasting in the classroom. I am not so sure how it will be beneficial in the classroom with K-2 students. It is definitely beneficial to students who are older and have a lot on their agenda. They can learn on the go with podcasting.