CASTING FOR PODCAST....

First of all, let's talk about what is a Podcast.
Podcast is a serial recording posted regularly online, or as Robert Rozema describe it "a blog in audio form".
Podcast had been used for recording personal experiences and telling stories, read fictional works, interviews, also a way to communicate and/or express ideas and feelings about a subject and/or person.

Lately, along with other technology communication forms, like videos, the Podcast has been use in the classroom and library settings for instruction, but also as a way the students can investigate and learn about a topic, in a more personal and creative way.

Let's face it, the new generations enjoy to use, work and learn with the new forms of technology, and using Podcast could be a great attention grabber for your students to learn about a subject.

The students are ore involved in the creative process using important skills like reading, researching, evaluating material, writing the script and posting the podcast (which also involves other skills like making decisions, manage time, and speaking in public, even though they are not in front of and audience).
They also can use it for storytelling and/or dramatizations of books, scripts or personal writings.
Create summaries of printed materials they had read.
Also, students can use podcast as a tool to improve their reading skills and fluency (students can monitor themselves, and see how they can improve)

The teachers can give the opportunity to students to be responsible for the creative process of the project (supervised of course).
Students are going to apply  skills and concepts that are taught in the classroom in "hands-on" experience.
Podcast can be wonderful tools to help students, especially for the auditory learners, and the information can be downloaded anytime at the convenience of the students.


Let's remember that one of the most effective principles in teaching is to give the students the opportunity to apply the skills we are teaching them in the real world.


And.....

After 375 takes I finally finish my Podcast Assignment (and without the help of my "technologista" son....Yay!!)

 Here is my podcast.....

https://soundcloud.com/olga-mendez-9/podcast-of-inch-by-inch