Thing 12 - Learning about Podcasting

I am listening to a podcast as I write this. Having a hearing impairment I have trouble hearing everything that is being said (I watch TV with the closed captioning on), but I can tell what a professional sounding podcast this is. It is supposed to be a book talk, but I think she is reading a part of it right now. It is from a high school/middle school and I am wondering how the media specialists have time to practice such a show. Now, I have to remember how to link in this program (ahhh!! we've been using so many, okay I see the link symbol) Okay the site is Hopkinton High School & Hopkinton Middle School Library, the link is http://www.hopkintonschools.org/hhs/library/podcast.html

My physical science teachers do an element unit each year where the students come down and have to research an element or two. I actually get to do a little stunt with them where I play the element song and show them the differences between some of the web pages they are going to use (web site evaluation is not a topic my teachers generally teach students) Anyway, back to the podcasting, this Eagen High School site is an excellent example to show the students and teachers, the different type of projects they could do instead of just making a periodic table on paper. Perhaps they could put a power point together to go with the commercial. How do you do enhanced podcasts? (I haven't looked ahead to see if that is covered.) Any way the link to this site is http://www.eagan.k12.mn.us/fletcher/acn/projects.xml

Other than my previously mentioned hearing impairment, podcasting sounds like a motivation tool that I must get my teachers to use. Wouldn't it be great for speech class? Especially those who don't want to get up in front of the class. They could practice and hear what they sound like.

Okay, onto the next thing so I can figure out how to teach my teachers how to do this.