Thing 20

As I mentioned in Thing 19, I showed a few podcasts to the students from your wiki. At that time, the students were not interested in them. However, now that I have downloaded iTunes and viewed many different podcasts, I think this will change. I viewed many educational podcasts with music and videos which I think would capture their attention and entertained them at the same time.

Podcasts my students would enjoy:

Crazy Dave's Kids Show
Storynory
MathtrainTV
World News For Children


I think my students would enjoy creating podcasts now that they have had more exposure to them. Students like working with each other on projects. Being able to add music or sound effects would create additional fun and motivation for the students. Podcasts give every student a voice in the classroom. Some students enjoy listening to their own voice while others do not. After some practice and hearing their own voice multiple times, I think all students would become comfortable with it after a while. Of course, podcast would also give the students practice with writing, creating, recording and sharing. Students haven't created podcast for me yet, but I think podcasts would be good for most any subject. At our school, we are trying to get the students to read more. The first thing that comes to mind is book reviews. If the students listen to summaries of different books, they may be more interested in reading them. Another thing I thought of might be to podcast with our partner classes about an activity we did together.
I usually take educational science field trips with my class each year. Each student could do a podcast of something new they learned while on the field trip.

Podcasts I could use professionally:

Teaching With SMARTBoard
Middle School Matters
Science On The Wildside Show
Terra The Nature Of Our World
Discovery
The Saint Cast - Catholic Saints On Call

Podcasts I could use personally:

20 min. Yoga Session
Start Cooking
Photoshop for Digital Photographers