Podcast

This week we learned how to do a podcast. We made a script for a public service announcement and recorded it and learned how to upload it to our google site.

This is useful because it can be used for students to practice their speaking skills and learn how their voice can affect the mood. As a teacher you can have them do weekly announcements and rotate through the students so they each have the opportunity to learn. As a teacher it can be a fun way to give announcements to the students or parents. It can spice up the announcements instead of just having them typed up each week. This can be a very useful tool and can be used in a variety of ways. It would be fun to practice this feature more and learn more before I have a class or my own. Technology is becoming very important in the classroom. Children are getting more proficient in technology because they grow up around it.

Learning all this opens up many options and definitely adds to my schema. Being with my partner on Monday and making up our own commerical was really fun and it was easy to add to our websites. I hope to be able to incorporate this kind of technology in my classroom as a learning tool and show my students the many options available to them. It will be interesting to see what I learn about Vidcasts in class Monday. As being a useful tool between me and my colleagues it would be a useful tool if we as a group had an announcement and wanted to make it creative for the students. I am sure that as I continue to learn more about it more ideas about how to use it better and more effectively will come to me.