Thing #22

Podcasts

Podcasting is a great way to get information across to others into a digital recording. A podcast can instruct, persuade, enlighten, or entertain. It can also be a fun activity for students to show off their creativity as well as practice public speaking.
The podcast I listened to came from npr.org and it was recorded by Emily McCord. NPR is a social media website that focuses on engaging the public and posting the information on their dashboard. Fans can also share their latest stories, videos and flickr photos. The podcast is called All Things Considered. I thought is would interest the future teacher candidates because this idea to eleviate snow days may be apart of their future school policy. To substitute snow days, Crested Butte, Colorado schools have "e-days" also known as electronic days. When school is closed, instead of missing assignments and extending the school year, students access their assignments from their home computers. Students just log onto their computers and complete virtual assignments created by their teachers. Now it's that awesome. E-days make it possible for teaching to show off their knowledge and creativity using web 2.0 tools. This would be a time where the podcasts, classroom blogs, wikis ect. could come to life and be of good use to communicate with students. This school district has parterned with an area university to study the effectiveness of the program and to determine if they will continue using e-days instead of snow days. I will definitely be pushing to have e-days instead of snow days when I become a teacher!