Podcast

Today in class we learned how to make Podcast and we got to partnership off and make our own.

I believe that this will be helpful in the classroom cause sometimes you need a sub, but subs just dont give directions the same way we do ourselves. This way I could record my instructions for the sub to play. I believe we are doing this to increase our knowledge of the subject of podcasts because in all honesty I have heard of them but never used them until today. I also think that announcements can be recorded before school so the students doing them dont miss class to go do them. I also believe that his will also be helpful to sick students and parents of students. Not only will they be able to do the assignment they will be able to listen to instruction as well.

I know that children today are more technology advanced than me because when I was doing lesson plans last week. My friend told me that at her school they have laptop carts for the students. Where they are able to go to approved websites and stuff during class. From observing 1st graders this month I realized how much more advanced they are compared to when I was in 1st grade. Well I know that I have a schema of technology, but the things I am learning in this class are making my schema on the subject bigger and in some cases better. I can assign something like this to my students and depending on what we are learning make them podcast about that, plus I know how hard it is to get around in Elementary School cause you are relying on transportation I would assign them to do it with other classmates but some that live close so they are in walking distance of each other. I really like this assignment but will have to put a lot of thought in to more uses for it in a classroom setting.