Tech Article - Podcasts

I wanted to do my 2 technology articles on the tutorial that I talked about in my Professional Development Profile so in this blog I will share what I have learned about podcast. I knew absolutely nothing about podcasts before this assignment and I have learned a ton. There are so many different ways to use podcasts and you don’t even need an iPod, which is probably why I haven’t looked into them before because I don’t have an iPod. I have learned that there are different podcasts that you can subscribe and listen to, but something that I really liked was having the students create their own podcasts. There was a ton of resources out there for creating podcasts and all you really need is a microphone. This reminds me a lot of making the digital stories in our class. Because we knew that we would be showing them to our classes we did extra good work instead of treating it as we would any other assignment. The same thing will happen for our students. They may have listened to other classes or students podcasts and they know that others are going to listed to their podcast so they will do much better work to create a quality podcast that others will enjoy listening to. You can use podcasting in any subject, there are so many podcasts out there that are interesting and full of quality information. I think that using podcasts in my future classes will shake things up and make learning a little bit more enjoyable for my students.