A podcast is an efficient tool to include listening exercises in class. This tool has an important advantage that is the accessibility to work on it. As the Podcasting, video and screencasting, and Live streaming set of copy assure “Like other technologies…you do not need a lot of technical expertise to make it work” (pp. 113) So, teachers easily can create awesome listening exercises for their students. I will use it to create a story or conversation. Meanwhile, Students are listening the story or conversation and they have a handout with certain questions they have to answer. Also, I will use this tool to create a listening practice in terms of pronunciation. For example, if I am teaching vowels, I can in the podcast pronounce three different words and to ask students to write the word that is pronounce with the vowel “a” among the three words.
Podcast is a useful tool to make original listening practice in which teachers can add cultural aspect about their reality. Sometimes, teachers can find listening practices, but they are not related to students' life, so they get bored. Besides that, according to the reading Podcasting, Video and Screen casting, and Live Streaming, "All teachers could record important parts of what they do in the classroom that can then be archived to the class Weblog and used by students who may have missed the class or just want a refresher on what happened" (page 117). So, teachers not only can add information related to students' life, but also they can record the class and students could listen pronunciation exorcises.
Examples:
1- I would create a podcast using vocabulary related to clothing and then students are going to listen the vocabulary. Then, Teacher shows clothing, in order to introduce realia to the class. So, they are going to identify new vocabulary using realia, which is very important for the significant learning.
2- Students listen words and then they have to classify the words according to the sound. For example, if student listen cat and apple they would have to classify them in ae.
Podcasts are getting more and more useful as learning tools, so video tutorials such as this video are all around the web in order to help people create and publish their own podcast and continue publishing them on a regular basis. Podcast can be used in our field to encourage students to create their own podcast for fun or even as all-year long projects such as extra class assignments, speech presentations, role-plays, and radio programs. and the best thing about podcasting is that any topic you may think of can be used to create a podcast and you can carry on with that topic as long as you want, and then switch to another topic and so on. in short, the uses for podcasts can be as many as you can think of, and as the speaker says most podcast or podcast related websites and sofware are free to download and also easy to use.
Podcasting: “Mostly, it’s people from al different walks of life with all sorts of interests” (p.113) More than a option that contributes to engage students with their own reality and interests. So, it could be helpful because it doesn’t limit our students. On the contrary, it promotes personal and academic incorporation when contributing with ideas in simple conversations that bring students’ or community’s situations deeply and favoring other generations of students to collect more information previously developed. As a teacher, a good way to explore more in this amazing world of the podcasting could be by extension out of the classroom by encouraging students to develop their topics in a deep way. For example, according to the level they can contribute by offering different points of view from diverse people even the same teachers from other courses. Working as homework, projects during the semester or only as evaluating activities that foment in students not only learning skills in the acquisition of a second language but also in students; investigative and interpersonal skills to work with others. Other, possibility could be integrate this as explanation of specific topics where students can provide their points of view before and after listening to what teacher brings to class. Moreover, as complement of listening podcasting suggests variety of options. For example, complementing reading workshops in which students can improve their abilities in reading and writing by listening to those podcasting and then referring to them in a written form can be a good way to develop all students’ skills.
Podcasting is increasingly enhancing, improving our job as teachers, basically because, just like other tools, it is innovating ways to teach/learn. Also, Podcasting is luckily very easy, and provides the chance for students to self-evaluate their performances and check their proficiency. Fortunately, almost every person possessing certain devices can make use of this technology, and there is no need for "a lot of technical expertise"(Live streaming, p. 113); therefore, it represents a way to make the learning process much more attractive and funny. Now, thinking about more real-life situations in which to use podcasting, there are several, two of them are: - Having students recording their speeches in order to assess their own performance, as a way to practice for tests. - Using podcasts in a course blog with the instructions for the tasks and also with the recording of paragraphs to check pronunciation.
Nowadays, Podcasting is an incredible useful tool that helps us as professors to provide a possible way to practice and evaluate the knowledge about listening that our students could have. As the Podcasting video and screencasting stated “Like other technologies…you do not need a lot of technical expertise to make it work” (pp. 113); this is very simple by using a recorder and a lot of imagination the professor could create an unbelievable experience to the students transporting them to a different world inside a story providing them not only the possibility to understand a text but also to get a new idea about it. I will use podcasting if I will teach listening and speaking by giving them a story and asking them how this is developed.
Jhonser said... This video shows how to add audio to an image, a video or a PPP and then publish it using a blog. All we need is a microphone, and audio editing software, and a website or hosting service to upload your podcast in the web. The first step is to go to Audacity: free Audio Editor and Recorder and download a software called Audacity.1.2.6 installer. The author also recommends downloading the MP3 encoder to cut, trim, and remove background noise. If we want to add text and/or pictures the author also advises downloading MP3 Tag from mp3tag.de. Finally, he suggests going to podango.com to download WordPress. This software is used to upload the podcast in the Internet. As we can see, the use of this online communication technology is easy to use. It makes it easy to not only produce digital voice files, they also make it easy to publish and distribute them to wide Internet audiences (The Read/Write Web, pp 11). Moreover, in the educational field, Podcasts enable students to listen the information when they want, so students’ participation is not delimited by space and time (Theory and Research: Interaction via Computers, pp 22). An example of how teachers can employ podcasting in the classroom is, for example, to use it as a complement to a literature class. I have had problems getting Costa Rican legends in audio for my students, so by using podcasting I can create my own materials and upload it to the web. This way, students can listen it and then write a reaction paper. Another away to use podcasting in the classroom is by assigning the elaboration of a commercial to advertise a product. Students would work in groups of three people. In this case, students are involved in the project, increment social skills and have the opportunity to present their ideas creatively.
Podcasting is gaining popularity is the EFL classrooms and the reason is the convenience and the facility to which it can be used. Podcasts are materials (video or audio) that can work as complements in English classes. One of the advantages of using this kind of material is the exposure students have with native speaker which can be used in order to check pronunciation, intonation, stress, among other elements that can be supported by real life situations presented in the podcasts. How would I use podcasts? There are many ways to use podcasts in class, teaching transversals topic is one of them. We as English teacher know that according to the syllabus given by the MEP we have to cover different transversal topic within our lesson, why don’t use podcasts to close students to different polemics that may be of interest for the class. Using a content based approach the professor could teach elements such the ones I mentioned before ( pronunciation, intonation, etc) while creating an environment in which students can discuss and talk about important issues, encouraging among them critical thinking. In my opinion I think that would be a great use of podcasts.
Audio materials are one of the most relevant aspects while teaching or learning a language. The way that we learn how to speak is by listening, listening, and listening. It is not a secret that the chance to talk to natives speakers is not always available. That is why Podcasting has been a very useful instrument since it was launched in 2004. I have been against of the use of “unreal material”, by unreal I mean the use of audios in which speakers do not show any feeling or they just forget about natural rules to talk. In my opinion it would be more significant to record a part of the class or any other lapse in order to make an audio than just use two people speaking like robots. I am almost sure that our students would appreciate this situation even more because the audio would be extremely related to the contents and topics developed during class time (paraphrasing Richardson). There are some softwares that help to edit the audio in order to improve its quality or to add other elements to catch even more attention. • One activity might be to prepare a dialogue in order to be record by some students, and then the audio material would be presented to rest of the class to provide feedback. • A good final oral presentation would be to create a podcast. It would avoid lack of confidence and also reduce the stress to present in front of the class.
Talking about innovative tools, Podcasting is another option that teachers may implement when developing excersises based on listening comprehension. Audio material is not only important but necessary among the resources used in the classrooms, that is way teachers are able to create their own podcasts to present different topics: dialogues, short stories, scripts are the activities they can include in a podcast It is also ver useful to analize and study literary pieces. This video is really interesting and helpful for the teachers who would like to implement this kind of techniques in their classrooms. They explain the steps that the person needs to follow and also the programs trhough which they can create their podcasts.
Educators involved in CALL are rediscovering the power of the spoken word by utilizing podcasts to communicate with students outside the classroom. Podcasting enables you to incorporate on-an audio recordings for our students to follow instructions, learn, gather information, to create between others. For teachers podcasts can be really useful since basically is another way to communicate to our students in an innovative and easy way, as Jim Lengel the dean of faculty in Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston states "Podcasting is a new phenomenon, but it's very easy for the neophyte to produce. All you need is an idea that adapt to your needs, a computer with a microphone, and some recording software." As Lengel points out, podcasting can give teacher the "personal approach" needed or desired to complement learning in our students and to adapt better the activities, information, projects. Examples with podcasts: * To improve listening and speaking classes, for example with a dialogue that at the same time give feedback about the work done so far towards suprasegmentals. * In literature, can be used as a way to express figurative language, exemplifying the author(s) intention to an oral level for better comprehension of our students.
This ia another important tool that teachers can use taking advantage of the Intrnet Revolution.With a podcast we are able to promote a more dynamic teaching environment for our students. Since podcast can be done out of the class, the students may find it more comfortable and stress free to create a work at their on pace at home or in a familiar environment.Besides, students are aware that they need to strive for some type of excellence since their creation will be accessed by a greater audience. As we see in Chapter 8(Podcasting,Video and Screencasting,and Live Streaming)page 115,"Poscasting 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." I´d use it in my class as a resource to keep track of the assignments requested for a topic as well as future examinations. It could be a constant reminder of homeworks and projects pending, so that students have clear notions of the due dates. By doing so there is a wide variety of options to use in order to promote a good timing, clear instructions and positive backwash for the tests. As cited in chapter 8,(Podcasting,Video and Screencasting,and Live Streaming)page 117, " ... the possibilities are only limited by your imagination. Therefore podcasting is one more of the endless options we have to do our job in a dynamic and motivating way.
A podcast is an efficient tool to include listening exercises in class. This tool has an important advantage that is the accessibility to work on it. As the Podcasting, video and screencasting, and Live streaming set of copy assure “Like other technologies…you do not need a lot of technical expertise to make it work” (pp. 113) So, teachers easily can create awesome listening exercises for their students.
ReplyDeleteI will use it to create a story or conversation. Meanwhile, Students are listening the story or conversation and they have a handout with certain questions they have to answer.
Also, I will use this tool to create a listening practice in terms of pronunciation. For example, if I am teaching vowels, I can in the podcast pronounce three different words and to ask students to write the word that is pronounce with the vowel “a” among the three words.
Podcast is a useful tool to make original listening practice in which teachers can add cultural aspect about their reality. Sometimes, teachers can find listening practices, but they are not related to students' life, so they get bored. Besides that, according to the reading Podcasting, Video and Screen casting, and Live Streaming, "All teachers could record important parts of what they do in the classroom that can then be archived to the class Weblog and used by students who may have missed the class or just want a refresher on what happened" (page 117). So, teachers not only can add information related to students' life, but also they can record the class and students could listen pronunciation exorcises.
ReplyDeleteExamples:
1- I would create a podcast using vocabulary related to clothing and then students are going to listen the vocabulary. Then, Teacher shows clothing, in order to introduce realia to the class. So, they are going to identify new vocabulary using realia, which is very important for the significant learning.
2- Students listen words and then they have to classify the words according to the sound. For example, if student listen cat and apple they would have to classify them in ae.
Podcasts are getting more and more useful as learning tools, so video tutorials such as this video are all around the web in order to help people create and publish their own podcast and continue publishing them on a regular basis. Podcast can be used in our field to encourage students to create their own podcast for fun or even as all-year long projects such as extra class assignments, speech presentations, role-plays, and radio programs. and the best thing about podcasting is that any topic you may think of can be used to create a podcast and you can carry on with that topic as long as you want, and then switch to another topic and so on. in short, the uses for podcasts can be as many as you can think of, and as the speaker says most podcast or podcast related websites and sofware are free to download and also easy to use.
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ReplyDelete“Mostly, it’s people from al different walks of life with all sorts of interests” (p.113) More than a option that contributes to engage students with their own reality and interests. So, it could be helpful because it doesn’t limit our students. On the contrary, it promotes personal and academic incorporation when contributing with ideas in simple conversations that bring students’ or community’s situations deeply and favoring other generations of students to collect more information previously developed.
As a teacher, a good way to explore more in this amazing world of the podcasting could be by extension out of the classroom by encouraging students to develop their topics in a deep way. For example, according to the level they can contribute by offering different points of view from diverse people even the same teachers from other courses. Working as homework, projects during the semester or only as evaluating activities that foment in students not only learning skills in the acquisition of a second language but also in students; investigative and interpersonal skills to work with others.
Other, possibility could be integrate this as explanation of specific topics where students can provide their points of view before and after listening to what teacher brings to class. Moreover, as complement of listening podcasting suggests variety of options. For example, complementing reading workshops in which students can improve their abilities in reading and writing by listening to those podcasting and then referring to them in a written form can be a good way to develop all students’ skills.
Podcasting is increasingly enhancing, improving our job as teachers, basically because, just like other tools, it is innovating ways to teach/learn. Also, Podcasting is luckily very easy, and provides the chance for students to self-evaluate their performances and check their proficiency. Fortunately, almost every person possessing certain devices can make use of this technology, and there is no need for "a lot of technical expertise"(Live streaming, p. 113); therefore, it represents a way to make the learning process much more attractive and funny. Now, thinking about more real-life situations in which to use podcasting, there are several, two of them are:
ReplyDelete- Having students recording their speeches in order to assess their own performance, as a way to practice for tests.
- Using podcasts in a course blog with the instructions for the tasks and also with the recording of paragraphs to check pronunciation.
Nowadays, Podcasting is an incredible useful tool that helps us as professors to provide a possible way to practice and evaluate the knowledge about listening that our students could have. As the Podcasting video and screencasting stated “Like other technologies…you do not need a lot of technical expertise to make it work” (pp. 113); this is very simple by using a recorder and a lot of imagination the professor could create an unbelievable experience to the students transporting them to a different world inside a story providing them not only the possibility to understand a text but also to get a new idea about it. I will use podcasting if I will teach listening and speaking by giving them a story and asking them how this is developed.
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ReplyDeleteThis video shows how to add audio to an image, a video or a PPP and then publish it using a blog. All we need is a microphone, and audio editing software, and a website or hosting service to upload your podcast in the web. The first step is to go to Audacity: free Audio Editor and Recorder and download a software called Audacity.1.2.6 installer. The author also recommends downloading the MP3 encoder to cut, trim, and remove background noise. If we want to add text and/or pictures the author also advises downloading MP3 Tag from mp3tag.de. Finally, he suggests going to podango.com to download WordPress. This software is used to upload the podcast in the Internet.
As we can see, the use of this online communication technology is easy to use. It makes it easy to not only produce digital voice files, they also make it easy to publish and distribute them to wide Internet audiences (The Read/Write Web, pp 11). Moreover, in the educational field, Podcasts enable students to listen the information when they want, so students’ participation is not delimited by space and time (Theory and Research: Interaction via Computers, pp 22).
An example of how teachers can employ podcasting in the classroom is, for example, to use it as a complement to a literature class. I have had problems getting Costa Rican legends in audio for my students, so by using podcasting I can create my own materials and upload it to the web. This way, students can listen it and then write a reaction paper.
Another away to use podcasting in the classroom is by assigning the elaboration of a commercial to advertise a product. Students would work in groups of three people. In this case, students are involved in the project, increment social skills and have the opportunity to present their ideas creatively.
Podcasting is gaining popularity is the EFL classrooms and the reason is the convenience and the facility to which it can be used. Podcasts are materials (video or audio) that can work as complements in English classes. One of the advantages of using this kind of material is the exposure students have with native speaker which can be used in order to check pronunciation, intonation, stress, among other elements that can be supported by real life situations presented in the podcasts.
ReplyDeleteHow would I use podcasts?
There are many ways to use podcasts in class, teaching transversals topic is one of them. We as English teacher know that according to the syllabus given by the MEP we have to cover different transversal topic within our lesson, why don’t use podcasts to close students to different polemics that may be of interest for the class. Using a content based approach the professor could teach elements such the ones I mentioned before ( pronunciation, intonation, etc) while creating an environment in which students can discuss and talk about important issues, encouraging among them critical thinking. In my opinion I think that would be a great use of podcasts.
Emily Quintanilla Morán
Audio materials are one of the most relevant aspects while teaching or learning a language. The way that we learn how to speak is by listening, listening, and listening. It is not a secret that the chance to talk to natives speakers is not always available. That is why Podcasting has been a very useful instrument since it was launched in 2004. I have been against of the use of “unreal material”, by unreal I mean the use of audios in which speakers do not show any feeling or they just forget about natural rules to talk. In my opinion it would be more significant to record a part of the class or any other lapse in order to make an audio than just use two people speaking like robots. I am almost sure that our students would appreciate this situation even more because the audio would be extremely related to the contents and topics developed during class time (paraphrasing Richardson). There are some softwares that help to edit the audio in order to improve its quality or to add other elements to catch even more attention.
ReplyDelete• One activity might be to prepare a dialogue in order to be record by some students, and then the audio material would be presented to rest of the class to provide feedback.
• A good final oral presentation would be to create a podcast. It would avoid lack of confidence and also reduce the stress to present in front of the class.
Talking about innovative tools, Podcasting is another option that teachers may implement when developing excersises based on listening comprehension. Audio material is not only important but necessary among the resources used in the classrooms, that is way teachers are able to create their own podcasts to present different topics: dialogues, short stories, scripts are the activities they can include in a podcast It is also ver useful to analize and study literary pieces. This video is really interesting and helpful for the teachers who would like to implement this kind of techniques in their classrooms. They explain the steps that the person needs to follow and also the programs trhough which they can create their podcasts.
ReplyDeleteEducators involved in CALL are rediscovering the power of the spoken word by utilizing podcasts to communicate with students outside the classroom. Podcasting enables you to incorporate on-an audio recordings for our students to follow instructions, learn, gather information, to create between others. For teachers podcasts can be really useful since basically is another way to communicate to our students in an innovative and easy way, as Jim Lengel the dean of faculty in Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston states "Podcasting is a new phenomenon, but it's very easy for the neophyte to produce. All you need is an idea that adapt to your needs, a computer with a microphone, and some recording software." As Lengel points out, podcasting can give teacher the "personal approach" needed or desired to complement learning in our students and to adapt better the activities, information, projects.
ReplyDeleteExamples with podcasts:
* To improve listening and speaking classes, for example with a dialogue that at the same time give feedback about the work done so far towards suprasegmentals.
* In literature, can be used as a way to express figurative language, exemplifying the author(s) intention to an oral level for better comprehension of our students.
This ia another important tool that teachers can use taking advantage of the Intrnet Revolution.With a podcast we are able to promote a more dynamic teaching environment for our students. Since podcast can be done out of the class, the students may find it more comfortable and stress free to create a work at their on pace at home or in a familiar environment.Besides, students are aware that they need to strive for some type of excellence since their creation will be accessed by a greater audience. As we see in Chapter 8(Podcasting,Video and Screencasting,and Live Streaming)page 115,"Poscasting 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." I´d use it in my class as a resource to keep track of the assignments requested for a topic as well as future examinations. It could be a constant reminder of homeworks and projects pending, so that students have clear notions of the due dates. By doing so there is a wide variety of options to use in order to promote a good timing, clear instructions and positive backwash for the tests. As cited in chapter 8,(Podcasting,Video and Screencasting,and Live Streaming)page 117, " ... the possibilities are only limited by your imagination. Therefore podcasting is one more of the endless options we have to do our job in a dynamic and motivating way.
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