Last year I wrote about Podcasting as an exotic tool. I’m interested that the notion of podcasting is moving into the “Basic Toolbox”.
Last year I wrote about Podcasting as an exotic tool. I’m interested that the notion of podcasting is moving into the “Basic Toolbox”.
September 16th, 2007 at 11:05 am
It sounds like you are skeptical about Podcasts. WHY?
September 16th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
I actually do podcasts and have a great deal of respect for their value as performance, and for specific applications requiring sound. For *teaching* — they’re not very efficient, not very effective, and require a lot of work to do well.
Yes, you can slap stuff together quickly, but there are a lot of other tools than audio that will do the job with half (or less) of the work.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
I must admit, I am in a lab of iMacs and still don’t see the appeal of podcasts, to me they are just another medium of radio. Please convince me otherwise.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I have used and continue to use podcasting with my students. By and large, I use them as a means of assessment. For example, my students wrote personal essays modeled after NPR’s “This I Believe” series. In my humble opinion, podcasting as means of showcasing student work gives provides something unique- published voices that they would not have had otherwise. This extra ingredient really motivates my students, because they like the thought of being heard by a wider audience. Typically speaking, I will record one so the students will have a loose model, but we negotiate to accommodate creative differences.
I’ve taped guest speakers, and published them as enhanced podcasts for students that may have missed that day. Otherwise, the opportunity is lost altogether.
Insofar as my own teaching, like the speaker I mentioned above, I have recorded and published podcasts for review or study purposes. I’ve never used them as a means of direct delivery, though. I guess I’ve never really needed to.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Ok, now, THIS I can get behind.
Where is your feed? How can I subscribe?
September 18th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Now I will say this, I have seen Mrs. Dearing do a presentation for her podcasting and in the regular classroom like English, like hers, I see tremendous appeal. It really give life to a normal classroom, but for a lab like mine with all the bells, I am not sure how to make it real. I had thought about letting my students record their short stories on a podcast.