Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Week 6 Podcasts

Ewan McIntosh’s posts a blog on the usefulness of podcasts in the classroom and presents ideas on how to make the most of your podcasting experience. He suggests taking typical school announcements and kicking them up a notch by using tools like Garage Band and Audacity to add some pizazz to your work by including images and videos to podcasts.

He provides this link which gives instructions on how you and your students can jazz up your presentations. McIntosh states:

"Making a radio show, a regular podcast, that kids and parents can find on iTunes and listen to in their own time, has huge advantages of class presentations..."

The use of audio and video emerging technologies like podcasts and educational television creates a new level of interaction and experiences for our students. Traditional lessons have students listening to a teacher deliver instruction. With these new tools, students no longer need to be passive recipients of information they can become active contributors.

1 comment:

Rhodes-O'Neill said...

I actually use both.

I am quite pleased with garage band and audacity, especially since audacity is a fee tool.
I looked at the eduBuzz page on how to make a podcast. It seems that iTunes has to be subscribed to and then the podcast can be downloaded. I wonder if there is a way to upload podcasts to your blog?