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Podcasting is continually getting more and more popular in education. Recording your lesson or student projects and then posting them to your website provides your students to review the day’s lesson and parents to see what their children are doing in school! I recently attended a conference which had a workshop on podcasting. The teacher that presented was a Technology Specialist in an elementary school. Every year teachers in her school plan a multi – disciplinary project which involves art, music, english, and technology. The students create art projects based on famous works of art. Then they write a poem about the piece of art. Finally, using “Garage Band”, an Apple software, the students compose their own piece of music that they then add to a podcast. When the projects are completed parents and the community is invited into the school to view the “museum” that the students created. Each visitor is loaned an iPod with the students’ podcasts recorded on them. Then the visitors are guided through the hallways of the “museum” with the podcasts that were produced by the students. Other teachers have used podcasting in their foreign language classrooms. There are many great applications for podcasting!
This week I would like you to listen to a couple of podcasts that have been produced by teachers. Check out their applications and if you are interested develop an idea of your own! Share what you think on the class blog. If you are brave and would like to give some higher level skills a try make a podcast of your own using “Audacity” and Ourmedia.org.
Also, I would like to you to begin working on an element of Web 2.0 that you can use in your classroom. Several people have already begun and using blogs, pageflakes, and wikis with their students. I would like everyone to have something that they could use with their students developed by the second to last week of class. I plan on having you share your creation with class during the last two classes.
Check out these links!
Apple’s Podcasting in Education Video Series-
http://www.apple.com/education/resources/podcastingvideos/
Apple’s How to Create A Podcast -
http://www.apple.com/education/digitalauthoring/podcasting.html
How to Podcast Tutorial-
http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/00-podcast-tutorial-four-ps.htm
Education Podcasting Network – A clearing house of educational podcasts by students and teachers
Download iTunes – and you can have access to thousands of free podcasts on any subject!
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Examples of Student Podcasts
Coulee Kids Podcast – Longfellow Middle School
http://www.sdlax.net/longfellow/sc/ck/index.htm
Radio WIllow Web
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/listen.html
Book Podcasts
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/podcast_list.htm
Buzzwords -
http://www.trumix.com/podcast.php?mode=view&p=12520
Subscribing to Podcasts
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I began a filamentality page yesterday in class. I must admit I was nervous navigating through the site, but I started putting something together. During class I can explore and I’m not so timid, but at on my own I’m not so daring. Maybe if I had some kind of handout to refer to I’d be more willing to keep trying. It is realatively easy, but now I’m not sure what to do with it…use it as an assignment? I may attempt a blog next, so my students can voice their opinions on the unit I’m covering. Podcasts will be interesting to explore…
Comment by Joan March 11, 2008 @ 2:22 pmI started a filamentality page yesterday, too. It’s about the Supreme Court. There are so many wonderful resources out there. I even found a virtual tour of the building, including the justice’s offices. I need to keep looking and adding links to my “scrapbook.”
One thing I’m a little confused about is the difference between a Webquest and a scrapbook. There’s also another term that refers to providing a list of websites to your students. Did anybody figure out which of these goes with what kind of assignment?
At this point, I’m planning to ask my business law class to research the supreme court and create either a PowerPoint, poster or paper about some aspect of the court, like its recent history, early history, recent cases, current justices’ background, and so forth. (Details are to be supplied, obviously!)
Comment by Gayle Barooshian March 11, 2008 @ 4:19 pmI loved some of the podcasts that I saw. I especially liked one that had fourth grade students giving oral book reports and book reviews. I feel that is something my young ones could handle. I am not sure if I am going to incorporate something like that yet though.
I began a filamentality project during class about Ecosystems, which we study in the spring. I linked up to some great resources (including Wiki) for the kids to find answers to the questions. I kept the questions to ones that could be answered on the front page of each website so that I do not have my students clicking too many links and getting lost.
Comment by Marci March 12, 2008 @ 5:15 pmI watched some podcasts involving a smartboard presentation in a math classroom. I wasn’t impressed with the ones I watched. They were kind of scattered and slow to get to the point. I was hoping to use at least one of them in my own classroom but I do not think I will be able to. I attempted to make an MCAS blog. I’m not sure how I will use it as yet but I am quite interested in my student’s feelings towards the 8th grade math MCAS this year since quite a few of them dropped from 6th to 7th grade. I’ll keep you posted once I get it up and running…it is still a work in progress!!
Comment by Pat T March 16, 2008 @ 11:22 pmI’ve listened to a lot of podcasts of teachers’ instruction as well as classroom discussions. I think that some of my students would be really open to having our classroom discussions podcasts. I also think I may have a handful who have a hard enough time speaking up in class during discussions that may shy away even more at the knowledge of it being on the internet.
Comment by Danielle March 19, 2008 @ 4:43 pmI think that as a lower elementary teacher, podcasts may be more beneficial for me than my class. I don’t think that my 8 year olds have put a finger around of the concept of the world wide web. I had a discussion with them today about how we use different resources to get information and facts ( a piggy back lesson from our school librarian ). The discussion led to internet safety. I am not sure where I am going to go with this but I think I may do something using web 2.0 for my students to understand about internet safety for my final project. I don’t know yet. I am just trying to get the most out of all the sources we’ve been introduced to, but I think my kids are just too young!