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| Posted by: Michael Porter |
1/28/2008 8:24 PM |
Last night we looked at a number of tools and spliced in reasons why you might want to podcast. Some classroom applications are:
Why Podcast?
• Gives students a voice
• They are accountable to a broader audience
• Improve Public presentation skills
• Students like to talk—harness it!
• Students are using a new, powerful technology
Ideas
• Meet the needs of more students—auditory learners
• Record public domain literature
• Community updates
• Original student compositions, essays, lab reports
• Oral rehearsal for world languages
• Library book reviews
• Enhance the classroom lecture
• Broadcast school concerts
• Author interview
• Field trip recaps
• Travelogue
• Foreign language: vocabulary/grammar exercises
• Daily announcements
• Principal’s Message on the school website
• Short tutorial on a topic
• Announcements
• Meet the needs of more students—auditory and visual learners
• Science Experiments / Science Fair
• Digital Portfolio
• Position papers: Pros and Cons
• Peer-Podcasting with other schools, grade levels
• Summarizing written documents
• End of unit summary
• Reflection
We know that this list is not exhaustive--what can you add to the conversation? Tonight we looked at a variety of tools to get you up and going. For example, within Windows, there is a free audio capture tool called Sound Recorder that can create 60 second simple podcasts. Audacity is a free, open source tool that can craft very sopisticated and professional-quality podcasts with music backtracks. Then we looked at PhotoStory 3, a free Microsoft tool that allows for animated slide shows; think PowerPoint meets NPR. Finally, we looked and played with www.voicethread.com, which is probably the future of podcasting, as it's Web-based and quite easy. Plus, it allows for two way communication if you allow comments on your podcasts.
Please use the comment button to share your learnings and ideas.
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Re: Podcasting in the Classroom |
By Juan on
2/25/2008 6:51 PM |
| Audacity is wonderful for those kids who struggle with public speaking or having problems getting their thoughts out in a continuous stream. This allows them to have some success with verbal presentation without the anxiety of sounding "funny" (editing out the numerous "umms", pauses, and paper shuffles. |
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Re: Podcasting in the Classroom |
By Warren Knepper on
2/25/2008 6:53 PM |
| I could easily see the potential of this technology. Kids love to hear themselves broadcasted, and it can especially be enhanced with music which is the medium they can best relate to. I struggled to keep up in class, and if I got lost it was hard to catch up. I would have prefered just seeing a demo of whats needed to create a podcast done much slower. I felt there was a lot to cover in the class and needed to be spread out and a bit slower pace. |
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