Podcasting

I really do not know if the students in lower grades will pay attention to podcasts. Children are mostly visual learners and will most likely take in the things they need learn if they see them Podcasts take you back to radio days. That is all that it really is the radio on the internet.

The first podcast I listened to was the SmartBoard Lessons Year End Ideas it was pretty good it was very conversational because there were two hosts. They had a great idea on this one about how to use movies in math this is a great idea, It makes math more interesting to kids. They were complex in this podcast but not too complex to the point where people could not understand what they were talking about.

ConnectLearning Episode 90 it was different than all the other ones it was at a conference and was a question and answer session. In my opinion it was just alright.. It was better that the last one in that it grabbed you at the beginning and held your attention instead of about boring you half to death. Using I pods in education is becoming a big thing i didn't even realize this but it makes perfect sense the Ipod is like having a radio, CD player, DVD player, and books all in the palm of your hand. It was interesting to see how some of the people in the podcast were using technology in education and what they were using.

Pod-casting is like any other type of media if used right it can be very helpful and entertaining. Most of these post were ok I didn't enjoy this that much but it was ok. If you were to use this type of thing in the classroom you would have to be careful on what you used. Like I said before If you don't hook the listener in the first few seconds then you might lose them, and if thats a student that could be bad. Podcast would be great for the high school students and maybe middle school I don't think podcast would work in the lower grades because the don't have the attention span to use them properly hell I don't think i do.