This blog will be completely dedicated to the topic of podcasting; I would also like to show you why podcasting might be very useful in your classroom. Through, doing some research I have found that you can find a podcast for almost every subject, the podcasts can be very fun and interesting, and you can find podcasts of short explanations of the topic you are going over in your classroom to very fun songs that will help your students remember the material; they are catchy and very memorable.
When
learning about podcasting; these two tools were very helpful in creating my
very own podcast and I couldn't have done it without the help Audioboom,
they give you a limit of ten minutes per podcast. Which helps you keep your
information condensed and you can literally trim the fat of extra information.
I feel as a teacher that there is a lot of information that you have to teach
your students and thanks to audioboom you can get rid of the unnecessary stuff
and focus on the main points you need to get across. Audioboom also gives you
the freedom, to have your students watch the videos before and after class, so
they can learn at their own pace and it gives parents the opportunity to stay
involved in their child's learning. We also used iTunes podcasting tool, when you go to the
iTunes podcast and select the education category and you can look up any
subject you want, they have almost everything. The podcasts are usually updated
weekly and you can follow those subscriber's podcasts. Which this is very
awesome, because I have also found podcasts of learning about children with
speech and language delays, I have also found podcasts about autism, to a
special education major; that is a very useful tool for all special education
teachers and those who are getting their degree in special education. These are
the reasons I feel that makes these two tools very unique to me.
When going to the Audioboom website, you can create a free account; you need to
put in your email, your username that you would like and a password that you
can easily remember. When you log in there is a red record button, in the right
hand corner. When you hit the red record button you have the option to record
or to add an already recorded audio file into the podcast, you can even add a
picture of your choosing. You will then hit the save button, which will then
highlight the option of giving a title and a description and then all you have
to do is hit the publish button. You can share your podcast with other social
media sites and even on your own blog. For the iTunes site, you download the
iTunes application. You will then go to the view, and show the sidebar and hit
CTRL S, and then you will select the podcast option. You can then select a
category of what types of podcast you would like to view. For this project we
used the education category; after selecting the education category we will
scroll all the way to the bottom to select specific levels of education, I
picked the K-12. It showed us all the hot podcast that were very popular; we
could even search other categories if we wished as well. This in turn helped me
find my topic to make my very first audioboom podcast based on one of iTunes
very own podcast.
For my
very first podcast, I found a podcast show called Scientific America: 60 Second
Earth and I based my summary on their 9th episode "What Explains Past Climate
Change?" The podcast looks over the issue of global warming issue. Overall
1000 years ago in Europe enjoyed on average temperatures; you will see what
misunderstanding they had back then about present date global warming and we
will see the potential causes of global warming. I hope you enjoy my first ever Audioboom podcast!
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