Blog Post #4


Links to Podcast Teaching
So, I loved the ideas given in the links. In 1st Graders Create Their Own Read-along Audiobook, students are given the opportunity to take an interesting approach to the old book report. The students did an interview style review of chapter content. This reinforces key principles for the children as well as gives them the opportunity to put themselves in character. One of the great comments made by Ms. Tolsano was that the students started wanting to "rerecord their voices if it didn't sound just right".They began to worry about tone, inflection, and presentation.

Flat Stanley gets Parents involved
When students began the Flat Stanley Podcast , they had just read Jim Brown's book Flat Stanley, a book about traveling the world, even though in an unconventional way. Their teacher took the project out of the book and into the home by asking her students to do something different. Put themselves in the shoes of the main character and travel to another place by reading instead of going there in person. The thing that was so inspiring to me is that they got the parents involved. When they help their kids learning leaves the classroom and becomes part of their everyday life.

Podcasting in the Classroom
Podcasting in the Classroom is a great video to watch to show how technology can be applied in middle school classroom settings. By giving the characters in books recognizable and living voices brings the content of the book to life for the students. The video link also shows that students are able to cover missed material and review even more efficiently when the subject matter is available to them in audio as well as video form.