Podcasts

May 8th

What I learned:
In this class I learned how to use the podcast application.  We first started by becoming familiar with what podcasts were by watching some.  Some of the ones that we found were fun and interesting and others were not.  After sharing what we found with the class we then had to make our own podcast.  I will admit, it was hard to come up with an idea that I wanted to teach at first because I could not really pick one.  Finally thought I chose to do an art lesson.  I learned how to upload pictures onto the program and I am not done with my podcast yet, so I still need to add the sound/words.

What I liked:
I liked seeing all of the different podcasts and getting ideas for what I wanted to do.  I thought that it was a lot of fun to try to find the pictures that I needed for my lesson.  I had to search key words and make sure that is what I wanted before I just chose it.  I also liked that I could pick the topic that I wanted to talk about.  It was not just given to me and I had no say and was not interested in the subject.  I got to pick and I think this made me more interested in the subject because I got to pick.

What I didn't like:
I did not like that the program that we were using was sometimes a little hard to use.  It was hard to try to get the pictures to be the right amount of time.  This was frustrating because it would not do what I wanted it to do at times, but if I was patient and worked with it, it became a little easier.  I am not sure if I am going to have this problem with putting the sound to the pictures, but I will find out soon.

How I would use this in the classroom:
I would use this in the classroom by creating presentations for my students to learn different subjects.  For example if we did a unit on health, I could make a short presentation "hook," to get the lesson started.  I could also use this as part of the main lesson too if I wanted to.  If my students were old enough, I could also have them make their own podcasts as presentations for the class.  They could do a book report, a science experiment, a history report, and more.  So both the teacher could use this and the students.