Wednesday, October 8, 2008

A Little About Podcasts

The first podcast was called Connect Learning. This podcast was done in a seminar setting for a group of Library Media Specialist. They shared their views and different uses for podcasts. One lady in the audience mentioned that a student in her school uses a podcast to share a rap song he wrote for his biology class. The song helped him to learn the information and helped his classmates as well.

The second Podcst,called Kidcast, had only one moderator. He gave some great examples of how podcast could be used to help students learn to make educated decisions. A teacher could assign an ethical issue and ask the students to research, analysis and respond to it.

Ed Teck Talk was the name of another podcast. Their focus is to encourage parents to partner with teachers in order to support students. On this podcast there were four people which shared the speaking time. Each one of the members broadcasted from a different part of the country. SMART Board Lessons carries a similar theme to Ed Teck Talk except that their focus is on teachers communication with one another.

Mac Break Weekly is a podcast featuring four men who talked about various things of importance to them. They talked about cameras and the stock market. This podcast was rather layed back. Catch Fly was a podcast which incorporated video as well as sound. The moderator presented The Calument Travelite Kit which is a photography kit. This podcast was helpful in that it showed the viewer how to use the products and gave them some feed back on the quality of the product.

2 comments:

Jennifer Averitt said...

Good job. Hopefully you now have a better idea of what to expect from your own podcast next week.

Jill said...

YES!! The different uses for podcasts mentioned on the Connect Learning podcast was very helpful!!!!