There are many useful tools that are free and available to use in learning environments. Blogs are a free website in which teachers can add relevant content to a class. They can have many purposes and many materials attached to the website. One of those relevant materials is podcasting. As the video shows, you can turn your blogger into a podcast. It is another useful tool that can be used for evaluation purposes in which students should actively participate. “Podcasting is yet another way for them to be creating and contributing ideas to a larger conversation, and it’s a way of archiving that contribution for future audiences to use.” (Podcasting, Video and Screencasting, and Live Streaming, 115). Podcasting becomes a tool that helps students to get involved in classes because by listening to the audio they can have more ideas. Besides, it would be of great help to include multiple intelligences in classes. Therefore, podcasting helps teachers in many ways and it can be re-used or re-apply in later classes because you can re-play it as many time as necessaries. In my own experience, I don’t remember a teacher that ever used podcasting, but since it is a relatively new tool I guess that’s why. Though, I think that being a new thing it should be included in educational environments when having the possibilities; in this way, there is variety in the materials used in classes. I would use podcasting for my students to create their own story and post it on the class blog. It could be used as a students’ project in which they create a story related to the content studied in class. They share their productions with their classmates. Another way of using podcasting in my classes could be to create debates of conversations. By listening to it and post it on the blog, students can make comments about the podcast and in this way we create an online discussion. I think that the use of new technologies might be scary, but it creates many opportunities for teachers to develop materials that are cheap and attractive to the class. It is a matter of trying them out and combine them, as is the case of the blog and the podcast.
There are many useful tools that are free and available to use in learning environments. Blogs are a free website in which teachers can add relevant content to a class. They can have many purposes and many materials attached to the website. One of those relevant materials is podcasting. As the video shows, you can turn your blogger into a podcast. It is another useful tool that can be used for evaluation purposes in which students should actively participate. “Podcasting is yet another way for them to be creating and contributing ideas to a larger conversation, and it’s a way of archiving that contribution for future audiences to use.” (Podcasting, Video and Screencasting, and Live Streaming, 115). Podcasting becomes a tool that helps students to get involved in classes because by listening to the audio they can have more ideas. Besides, it would be of great help to include multiple intelligences in classes. Therefore, podcasting helps teachers in many ways and it can be re-used or re-apply in later classes because you can re-play it as many time as necessaries. In my own experience, I don’t remember a teacher that ever used podcasting, but since it is a relatively new tool I guess that’s why. Though, I think that being a new thing it should be included in educational environments when having the possibilities; in this way, there is variety in the materials used in classes. I would use podcasting for my students to create their own story and post it on the class blog. It could be used as a students’ project in which they create a story related to the content studied in class. They share their productions with their classmates. Another way of using podcasting in my classes could be to create debates of conversations. By listening to it and post it on the blog, students can make comments about the podcast and in this way we create an online discussion.
ReplyDeleteI think that the use of new technologies might be scary, but it creates many opportunities for teachers to develop materials that are cheap and attractive to the class. It is a matter of trying them out and combine them, as is the case of the blog and the podcast.