Podcasting is an easy way to distribute a series of audio or visual files on the Internet. There are two things that must occur before your audio or visual file can be deemed a podcast. 1. It must be stored somewhere online. 2. It must be made available through a subscription. Once those steps are complete, voila, you have created a podcast. Below are some articles that explain how podcast are being used in education today.
Podcasting Just Might Be the Tool to Revolutionize Education
This article explains how college professors are using podcasts, or coursecasting, as study tools for students and as a preview for non-students to see how the course is run. Some educators are requiring students to subscribe to podcasts as well as create their own. The benefits of podcasting are especially helpful to foreign language students, so they may hear the different intonations and speech patterns of the language being studied. Educators are also creating videocasts. These are very useful when conducting labs, or virtually visiting places classes are not actually able to visit.
This website is a collection of educational podcasts with the express purpose to help educators find podcasts they need or want. They are arranged according to subject and there are also student and class podcasts available. This is a very helpful site for teachers not sure where to look for subject related podcasts.
This website outlines a lesson for students to create their own podcasts. This could be a monthly class news bulletin or they could be the assignment itself. It is based on the California state standards for technology integration. This lesson plan is open to interpretation in that the podcast could be an oral report, interview, a reproduction of a lesson for absent students, and more. It is not narrowed down to only one application.
Ideas for Podcasting in the Classroom
This website defines exactly what a podcast is and then supplies the reader with several resources that are related to setting up a podcast and how to use it in the classroom. Some examples for classroom use are science field notes, audio experiment observations, material distribution, art critiques, self-produced museum walking tour, historical audio diaries, and many more. Once recorded these podcasts can be shared with family and friends.
Incredible @rt Department: Blogs & Podcasts
Because I am an art teacher, I chose this website, which is specifically geared toward art podcasts. This site has student based podcasts as well as lesson sharing podcasts, discussion podcasts, how to’s for creating different art projects. It also has an index of art podcasts and podcasts in general. I found this website to be the most beneficial for me.
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