Blog Post #5

Langwitches - Podcasting With 1st Grade
After reading this post, I thought what she is doing is a great idea. She introduces podcasting to her classroom full of first graders. After reading the book, Vacation under the Volcano by Mary Pope Osborn, she lets her students create questions they would ask the main characters, Jack and Annie. When the recording process came, each student was able to play one of the interviewers. This let each student participate in the experience of podcasting. By getting involved, students began to get excited about what they were able to do. Some became interested in the editing part of creating this podcast as well. I think podcasting is a great idea she has brought into the classroom. By doing so, many students became interested it what they were doing, became better at presentations, and improved their listening and speaking skills.

Langwitches - Listening-Comprehension-Podcasting
Viewing this post, I was very impressed that the kids learned some Hebrew to tell the story. To create the story, each child participating learned a few Hebrew words and had to tell the story between all of them. What I thought was a good idea was that during recording, all the sentences were out of order. Being out of order allowed to students to edit the podcast and rearrange what sentence follows which. This was done on a SmartBoard which also let the students play, pause, and move around different clips. I think doing this was a great idea because it lets the students create the story. Not only are their voices in the story, but they learn editing skills as well as how to use a SmartBoard.

Judy Scharf Podcast Collection

This collection of podcast consisted of all different types of information about podcasting. In What is a Podcast?, it gave some information of what exactly podcasting is. The post also offers information on what is needed to create a podcast. She also gives the viewers two links, How to create a podcast, which offers watchers a visual idea and instructions on how to create one. The other link was Podcasting, which gave a instructional video as well but from a different site. I think this was a great post because it defined what podcasting is and what is needed to create one. Being a visual learner myself, I loved how she put in a link to videos that showed how to create one.