podcasting

How can podcasting be used in education?

Podcasting can be used as information from another source, other than visual. Podcasts require good listening and comperehension skills and this can be assessed through Podcasts to see what your students hear and understand. It also taps into their memorization skills for recall. I have to admit that it takes me a couple of times to hear a Podcast to fully understand what the message is. All of our students learn in different manners, this one is for those auditory learners. (Sara)

Dana Dukic, a participant in my Shark Bytes project, contributed this information on podcasting in our https://sharkbytesproject.wikispaces.com/Podcasts. (Susan)

I do think that podcasting is interesting, but I am a visual learner and I get frustrated with it because I always have to go back and re-listen to it a couple of times to really get a mental image and understand what is being said. Is there an easier way or just forget it altogether with visual learners? (Sara)

There is no one tool for students. We all learn in different ways and that is why [|UDL] calls for //Multiple means of representation,// to give learners various ways of acquiring information and knowledge (Susan)

I really like this site. I honed in on the part that explains a little about: "**Multiple means of representation** to give learners various ways of acquiring information and knowledge **Multiple means of expression** to provide learners alternatives for demonstrating what they know, and **Multiple means of engagement** to tap into learners' interests, challenge them appropriately, and motivate them to learn". I think that it broke what we should be aiming for down quite easily and nicely. (Sara)

I also like podcasting or even streaming video for kids,. Many of our students are auditory or visual learners and this is an excellent way for them to gather the necessary information. It also can be a nice introduction to a lesson or a good wrap-up. It has so many uses, all of the uses I've heard people using are great and make me explore podcasting sites. (Renee)

As a foreign language teacher I am a big fan of podcasting. Until recently I believed that podcasting was any mp3 file an individual could download, when in fact it isn't. [|Click here] to see Wikipedia's definition of podcasting. Many of my students struggle with pronunciation and have asked me to create podcast for vocabulary lists, and to add them onto my website so they could download them to their mp3 players, this would enable them to continue their learning outside of the classroom. This is something I plan on doing as soon as I figure out what time of audio file is the most suitable for sites. Students have also pointed sites such as [|coolgorilla.com] which can be helpful to language learners.

I agree that podcasts can at times be difficult to follow, it's easy for me to be distracted if I don't have an image or visuals to accompany a lenghty lecture I may be listening to. To get the best out of a podcast I need to take notes while listening. I do find it rather beneficial that I can pause and rewind any part I wish to listen to and examine again. I believe that for longer more engaging podcasts, for those students who are not auditory learners, a handout with specific scaffolded questions or cloze passages could benefit them in extracting the important points. (Julie)

Below is a link to an interesting article on Podcasting in Education - http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:oLjWp6R0Ng0J:dmc.umn.edu/technologies/podcasting.pdf+podcasting+%2Beducator&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Audio Activism has a blog that has a tutorial for how to create a podcast http://www.audioactivism.org/?p=37

There are two parts to any kind of communication, sharing and receiving. Before you can share something you need to make it. Here are a few excellent **Podcast creation tutorials**. How to podcast with your Mac http://www.engadget.com/entry/5843952395227141/ How to podcast for FREE http://www.podcasttools.com/ How to podcast with Windows with free software http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/10/11/how-to-create-your-own-podcasting-show Find the free audio recording and editing software Audacity here. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ It’s available for Mac, Windows, and Linux

There are more links on the site but these are just a few... (Marianne DeMarco)

A few weeks agao, I attended a conference in NYC. One of the workshops I had the pleasure to attend was on podcasting, this was offered by Dell. The presenters explained the basic of podcasting and shared a free, user friendly software, teachers could use to create podcasts; audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ If you are planning on creating podcasts I suggest you download this. I am a Foreign Language teacher and podcasting has many different uses in my classroom, here are a few possiblities; - students can listen to podcasts created for French learners, these can be found by simply searching online or going to the iTune store and doing a search, you will be surprised to see how many useful educational blogs are free - students can listen to current foreign podcasts in the French, including but not limited to news podcasts - I have created podcasts which I use for online activities to assess students' listening skills - I have created podcasts which are vocab lists that students can download and listen to for pronunciation purposes Many other uses are possible and considering that today's students are technology natives, I think it's important to provide them with study means that are interesting and useful to them. (Julie)