This week we learned how to make podcasts. We were told of the free program called Audacity. It allows people to place music and record voices together in order to be saved as a MP3 file. That is basically how podcast is defined. It is like a radio show, only it can be saved and replayed later. We used www.freeplaymusic.com to find music to include within the podcasts. In the classroom, we just put together a quick practice podcast to test out the system and receive an attendance grade. The actual podcast will be a quick social studies lesson done by me. Podcasts can be very useful in a social studies classroom with presenting information to students whenever they needed it. This is especially true for students who are absent. I would use them to inform students of important historical individuals on my teacher webpage. Podcasts would help build background knowledge for students and be easily accessible regularly. We also covered chapter eight of the textbook and took a quiz over it.
Standards met this week:
Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
This week we learned how to make podcasts. We were told of the free program called Audacity. It allows people to place music and record voices together in order to be saved as a MP3 file. That is basically how podcast is defined. It is like a radio show, only it can be saved and replayed later. We used www.freeplaymusic.com to find music to include within the podcasts. In the classroom, we just put together a quick practice podcast to test out the system and receive an attendance grade. The actual podcast will be a quick social studies lesson done by me. Podcasts can be very useful in a social studies classroom with presenting information to students whenever they needed it. This is especially true for students who are absent. I would use them to inform students of important historical individuals on my teacher webpage. Podcasts would help build background knowledge for students and be easily accessible regularly. We also covered chapter eight of the textbook and took a quiz over it.
Standards met this week: