Thursday, February 16, 2012

Blog Post #4

As I read through Langwitches Class Blog, it opened my eyes to what elementary students are capable of learning. These kids are in first grade, they were becoming more outgoing and involved in the assignment, that they were critiquing their own work. Technology is allowing these young students to advance in many aspects of learning in the classroom.
In Joe Dale's The Benefits of Podcasting in the Classroom, he went over great alternatives in why it is important to use a podcast in your class. One of the main reasons a teacher should use a podcast would be to keep those sick students involved in the material that they may be missing. Students have found podcasting helpful to follow the material and allow them to be involved in a different learning strategy. Also, if a student forgot a term from a study guide that the teacher went over or lost their notes then they can just review the podcast. These few reasons are a great alternative for students and their should be less excuses used in why they don't know the material because it is accessible all the time.
Teacher helping a student make a podcast


Melinda Miller's page would not download so I continued down the list to Judy Scharf and her Podcast Collection. I found her page very useful to those who are not very familiar with podcast because it has steps to begin the process. Also, there was a youtube video that teachers you how to download Audacity in order to begin podcasting. So, if anyone else is just learning all this new information about podcasting I definitely recommend checking out Judy's page.

2 comments:

  1. Are you ready for your podcast? I look forward to listening to it.

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  2. Hi Caitlyn, I’m Garreth Trawick and I enjoyed reading your blog. You and I had some similar points on podcasting. I think podcasting is a great thing for teachers and students to use for their benefit in the classroom. The idea I liked best, was how podcasts make information available anytime, anywhere and especially when a student is absent. With podcasts they can listen at home and it also saves the teacher time in that they don’t have to re-teach missed assignments. Overall your blog looks great! You responses on the topics were well written and reflected knowledge gained from each. Your flow of thoughts were clear and easy to follow. I look forward to reading your blog, keep up the good work.

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