Some tips to succeed in making your Podcast include: Familiarizing youself and becoming comfortable with the software, give students a variety of topics so they may choose the one that appeals to them, and provide examples of acceptable Podcasts just to name a few.
You can also connect your computer to a Smart Board in order to obtain easy access so that every thing you need to control can be done from the touch of a finger. You can also upload videos and/or audio and have it replayed back to you to ensure correctness.
There are many benefits of Podcasting in the classroom. They include but are not limited to: Allowing your students to interact OUTSIDE the classroom, project-based learning, higher-order thinking rather than lower-level (according to Bloom's Taxonomy), promotes creativity and innovation, and allows parental involvement to where parents can see what their kids are doing/learning.
I also liked the read-a-long interview scripts the teacher produced for her students to follow along. She incorporated specific sounds after a chapter ended and another one began in case students lost their place in the script. I would use this mechanism in my classroom one day particularly because I plan on teaching the younger ones as well and they always need certain reminders, such as this one, to give them a boost and further enhance their learning.
Hey Ashton,
ReplyDeleteThere are few things I have to say about your post.
1) You need images for each post with the appropriate ALT and TITLE tags in the HTML code.
2) You need to include clickable links in the text referring back to the webpages and videos that you discuss.
3) For this specific blog post, you were supposed to address 3 of the 7 choices for the post, summarize them, and then provide your own thoughts on the subjects. You then were asked to describe how you might use what you learned or read in your own podcast or in your future classroom, if you you do make podcasts. You did mention the interview scripts as a possible tool, but there are multiple others that you could have discussed.
Hey Ashton,
ReplyDeleteI like the way you touched on many different subjects, and I also share similar views on the subject. I was going to suggest adding clickable links to your post, but Bailey had beat me to the punch. No worries though, I'm having the same problems, but I'm going to the lab this week to get assistance. Good Luck and hang in there!!