Podcasting is like broadcasting for free. It is exciting to think that students can have their own radio type show on th internet! I loved using Audacity to get the podcast cleaned up...I liked seeing the sound wave pictures. It helped me to see how the inflections in our voices made a picture. It was fun to try to figure out what needed to be cut so that our podcast was under 1 minute.
If you have used podcasting before in your classroom, please share with me how it was received by the students. I would also like to know how you put them into groups to create their own podcast.
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16 years ago
Was just thinking about something Mindy that I wonder if you could use in geometry and podcasting. Could you have your students write out a what is it type of thing and give attributes of various shapes and sizes? Or maybe even have students give dimensions and the others in the class would have to create the geometric shape with those dimentsions? Just wondering.. I'd be interested in seeing if you think something like that would work for high school or if I'm thinking too much like an elementary teacher. :)
ReplyDeleteHow about having each student (or group) talk about how they would solve a geometry poblem. Or could you give them an authentic problem that needs to be solved and they create a “how-to” podcast about solving the problem. Instead of writing the solution they would “talk-through” the solution.
ReplyDeleteTying in with Sherry's comment...
ReplyDeleteHave them describe a figure of some sort and provide the answer in the next podcast, which would make listeners want to go to the next one. These could be quick things like, I have 4 equal sides and 4 equal angles, what am I? The next podcast would start off with, yesterday's answer was "a square", today I have one set of parallel sides......