Podcasting in the Classroom
The first video I chose to view in order to gain ideas for our upcoming podcast assignment was Joe Dale's Podcasting in the Classroom. The video reviews the various ways that podcasting can be beneficial in the classroom. As stated in the video, most people born after 1980 have never known a life without technology. One of the biggest problems in the classroom today is being able to keep someone's attention long enough for them to learn, that's where podcasting comes in. The video informs that podcasts can be set up in various ways, such as videos or voice recordings. Another way to use podcasts is for an outline to help students follow along with a certain subject. Mr. Dale uses this type of podcast in the video. One thing that I learned from the video is that the podcast is posted onto Itunes. This opens many new possibilities, such as allowing sick or absent students to complete their assignments on time. Podcasts are an excellent tool that should be used for years to come.
How to Create a Podcast
The video How to Create a Podcast is a great way to learn how to get started making your own podcast. It starts off by introducing the viewer to a free online software program named Audacity. Audacity is a program used to create and edit recorded clips that make up your podcast. The video walks you through step by step on how to get your podcast ready to publish by downloading or opening a few simple files. After you have finished editing your podcast and it is complete, you're ready to upload the file on the host site Podango.com. After using Podango, there are a few more steps leading up to the website Mypodcast.com. This website allows you to record, publish, and air your podcast. Finally, the last step is submitting your podcast to a search engine, In which the video suggests the site Podcast411.com. This video gave me valuable tips on my way to getting started creating podcasts.
Listening-Comprehension-Podcasting
In Ms. Rosenthal's Listening-Comprehension-Podcasting post, she touches base on a very important tool of podcasting, listening. She explains how important hearing all the aspects of a word is. The aspects of a word are key to learning what it truly means. Ms. Rosenthal's goal is for the listener to not only hear the sounds of the letters that make up the word, but also it's embedded context, the melody of it's sentence, and the words that lead to and follow it. All of these aspects come together and allow the listener to grasp the meaning and better understand what he/she is listening to. The article also points out that the podcasts can be used to help someone who is trying to learn a new language by hearing the words and learning how they are spoken.The use of the Smartboard tool,a user-friendly editing tool, allows the students to work on the podcast as a group with ease. This is another great example of how the podcast tool is used to help students become better teachers. This article taught me to pay close attention to the pronunciation of my words in my podcast.
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ReplyDeleteYou need to have clickable links and a picture to accompany all of your blog posts! Also, I noticed your gadgets on your sidebar are out of order and you are missing the RSS Feed to the Class Blog. Try to get all of this sorted out. If you are confused on anything, come by the lab and one of the lab assistants can help you out.