Benefits of Podcasting in the Classroom
I learned that the benefits of podcasting in the classroom is an effective way of interacting with students outside the traditional classroom. Students born after 1980, have never experienced life in a world without technology. Technology has taken up a great amount of their free time. The videos listed some facts about technology and how children spent sending two hundred and fifty thousand IM's, spent ten thousand hours playing video games, ten thousand hours on the phone, and more then twenty thousand hours watching TV. I also learned that podcasting allows differentiation in the classrooms and allows students to play things back. It allows creativity and innervation According the Kourtney Bostain, podcasting allows students to demonstrate high orders of thinking skills. Teachers are able to upload podcast to a blog. There was one teacher who used podcast to help with reading a play and had different teachers playing different parts to keep getting the students' attention. Parents can also hear and see what is going on in their child's classrooms.
Podcasting in the Classroom
Podcasting in the Classroom
Langwitches- Podcasting with First Grade
In this article you learn how the students interact with one another and how technology really makes a big difference in learning. Mrs. Tolisano and her 1st grade class made a podcast about a book called "Vacation under the Volcano". Their idea was to pretend that they were interviewing the two main characters form the book about their adventure to Pompeii. The students took turns speaking in the podcast. The boys played Jack and the girls played Annie. They recorded things together as a class like gasping or saying "No children allowed", and they seemed to be enjoying themselves. After each reading Ms. Tolisano typed up questions and answers for the students. The students were very cooperative and attentive to what was going on with the recording. Students ask to record their part a second time if they were not satisfied with their first recording. Doing this assignment brought shy and quiet students out of their shells. I learned that podcasting teaches skills like listening, speaking, presenting, voice acting, oral fluency, media, and technology. The class couldn't wait to hear their recording the next day.
Langwitches Listening- Comprehension- Podcasting
In the video below I learn that language is very important and in order to learn new vocabulary you have to hear the word over and over to understand the context of the word. When you are learning a new language, you have to attach feeling to the word. Also when people are learning a new language they have to practice using the words to help them get comfortable with it and help them with pronouncing them. Also help feeling and hearing the word coming out their mouth. When recording and editing a podcast, its gives the students an opportunity to see their voices, read the sounds and manipulate the sequence of sentences. I think this is a very helpful tool in learning a different language. If it is really helping young children learn how to speak a different language, why not make it something to use in all grade levels? I would really enjoy using a podcast to help me learn words from a different language. It's amazing how each student recorded a sentence and how they all had to put it in order. This was a great way for helping students learn about writing a script, listening, comprehension, collaboration, speaking skills, and fluency in the target language.
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Your blog post seems to meet the basic requirements of the assignment and also contains good content. I found your post to be informative as well as interesting. However, a few mistake I did catch are one, "and more then twenty thousand hours watching TV." should be "than" rather than "then". Also your sentences are a little choppy which makes it difficult to stay focused on the read. For example, the sentence "Teachers are able to upload podcast to a blog." is in my opinion too short. I would suggest trying to add more compund sentences and applying the use of conjuctions more often to avoid choppy writing. My last complaint is that I would rather see the hyperlinks incorporated into the paragraphs rather than just put at the bottom of the post. It took me a moment to find the links as opposed to seeing them more clearly had they been used in the actual paragraphs.
ReplyDeleteOther than those few minor things, I enjoyed reading your post. It meets the standards of the assignment as far as length and content, and it is evident you spent some time on your work. Good job.
Shannon,
ReplyDeleteYou have put a lot of thought into this post. However, I noticed you wrote "innervation" when I think you meant to put innovation. Innervation means to supply a body part or organ with nerves. Also, you need one picture with every blog post. Kids really love using the computer these days so we need to incorporate this in the classroom any chance we get!