EQ1 What is a podcast and how can I create my own podcast?
EQ2 Where can I find educational podcasts and in what ways can I use them?
1)A podcast is a series of audio or video files, posted online. For instance, different NPR (National Public Radio) shows have podcasts--audio files with that days or weeks show in it. These can be downloaded to be played at your leisure and even programmed to be downloaded as soon as they appear.
Creating your own podcast is fairly simple. Basically, you need to record yourself and post the mp3 online (there are various sites for this). If people can click your link and listen to or watch you, you are podcasting :)
2)Just searching the internet should provide viable educational podcasts. A quick internet search provided me with epnweb.org/ (epn-educational podcast network). This site has a plethora of podcasts from the elementary school classroom to yoga instruction. As I compose this blog, I am listening to a podcast about using Smartboards--just one way that educational podcasts could be used to an educators advantage. I also forsee them as a great tool for students to learn as well (a dance podcast that teaches them the box step in class). With the NPR example above, a class could listen to and discuss the Diane Rehm Show each day (obviously more of a high school activity). Podcasts can be a fantastic tool but, like so many other technological tools, we have to take the time to learn them and their implementations.
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It's funny... as I read your post, I'm also listening to a podcast! Aren't the informational? I use them a lot in teaching and it's something easy to involve students in adding to the webosphere... contributing their expertise as an assessment.
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