I could not believe how many different types of podcasts there are out there. Some just talk about nothing in particular and others are very well informative. You can spend hours listening to the many different podcasts. I was reading this one article called "Campus tours 2.0". It was talking about how colleges and universities were turning to the interactivity of Web 2.0 technologies in trying to lure new students. You can do a virtual campus tour without leaving your home!
One of the ideas of podcasting was to do an introduction for Open House, so I briefly summarized one of my 3 classes into a podcast. I am planning on doing my other two classes shortly so that I can give my students my web address and they can have their parents listen to it from my web page. I have always had a hard time when I take a class hour to demonstrate some concepts in a new program, and there are students absent. When they come back I have to teach a mini version of what I spent the class hour on. If I recorded my lesson with some pictures even and saved it as a podcast, it would be much easier to have the absent students following a tutorial of what they had missed. I would also like to get an after school group together and put together a podcast on what is going on in the school. Depending on how quick they can get it together and what is going on at the Jr. High, we can do a monthly podcast. I think the students will really enjoy putting it together and then we will have to get the word out to the students and staff to listen in.
The students will definitely be using quite a few of the NETS when working on a podcast of school news. Creativity and Innovation would be a must. How they are going to present it and what are they going to be talking about. They have to keep the interest of their audience. Another standard would be the Communication and Collaboration. The students would be working in groups, gathering information and then communicating it to their peers and teachers.
The podcast I recorded is at my webpage because I could not get it inserted. Click on the webpage below and look under Classroom projects, Open House Podcast.
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