Podcasting in Education

The first time I ever heard of podcasting was on the Preston and Steve show( a local radio show). I remember thinking wow that is pretty neat that if you missed the show you could listen to it later on down at your convenience. Education and podcasting are a great pairing.http://eric.ed.gov:80/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1e/1d/f3.pdf Flanagan presents a good paper outlining podcasts. Along with the information he gives on setting up podcasts Flanagan says podcasting presents a good alternative in class lecturing. In his paper a Duke student suggests that listening to the class lecture via podcast after the lecture contributed to his high score on the first exam.

http://lansinglearntech.pbworks.com/f/k-12+podcasting.pdf   Podcasting can also be used at the middle school level as well. Rhea R. Borja talks about how middle schoolers are podcasting to let other students know whats going on around the school. The students do interviews then edit them down then post them so that the rest of the school can get to know the different areas and students in the school.

Learning about podcasting and incorporating into the classroom are two different things. Often after learning about something we want to incorporate it into our classroom but are not quite sure how to do it.  Nathan Shelley has a good website http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~nshelley/index.html that shows how to start off with podcasting. The website benefits teacher and student with sections explaining the process each will have in incorporating podcasts into the class.

Podcasting is a fairly new tool for educators, so why should we use it? Wesley fryer give ten reasons for using podcast. http://www.wtvi.com/TEKS/05_06_articles/classroom-audio-podcasting.html .

You can never have enough  ideas for projects for your students. If you are going to incorporate podcasting into your class you will want to have plenty of ideas for how to incorporate them. http://fcit.usf.edu/podcasts/ this site gives you a bunch of different ideas for how to use podcasting in subjects.