Here be Dragons

Who is Podcasting in Their Classroom?

rncdb — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:21:26 +0000

A lot of people, actually. Not only are they podcasting in their classes, but they are blogging about podcasting in their classes and podcasting about podcasting in education. The beauty of making material available to your students via podcasts that they are able to take class content with them on a portable device if they choose, replay lectures, or even create their own podcasts and share them with the rest class and/or the rest of the internet.
See what is going on:

Podcasts of the Museum of Modern Art by students of Merrymount Manhattan College – http://mod.blogs.com/art_mobs/
Third graders podcasting – http://bobsprankle.com/blog/C1697218367/index.html
Teaching Russian via podcast – http://spoonfulofrussian.com/
Podcasting from the Kuskoquim Campus – http://community.uaf.edu/~kuc/blog/archives/podcasts
(more about what they are doing in Nunivak)

Getting your own podcast started takes just a little curiosity, access to a computer with a mic, and Audacity – free software that you can use to prep your recordings for your listeners. You will also need the LAME MP3 encoder to save your audio to MP3.

Tutorial on podcasting using audacity http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/17/1633214&from=rss

You can also download sounds tracks that are available for use on your podcasts that are open under Creative Commons Licensing at places like ccMixter.com.

Where to Eat in Homer

rncdb — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:54:33 +0000

Blogging and Conversations

rncdb — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:42:02 +0000

Within the context of the classrooms blogs can take many shapes. You may decide you want to implement a group blog for your class or individual blogs.

Though they open avenues for conversation with students as discussionboards or list-servs do, blogs potentially offer more opportunities to take these discussions further, stimulate critical thinking, and incorporate additional connections with others learners – and even professionals – outside the immediate classroom.

It is almost impossible to throw a rock and not hit a creative example of blogging in the classroom today all around the country and what some of them are doing is nothing short of impressive.

Blogs for:

Reflective Writing:
Amerifun Literature Blog – http://compal3.blogspot.com/
Novel Discussions – http://www.noveldiscussions.blogspot.com/
North Cobb HS – http://northcobbhs.blogs.com/poverty/
Classroom Community:
Arts 'Zine – http://mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/artswriting
Contemporary Cinema – http://rrodrigo2.uniblogs.org/
Collaborative Resource:
Student podcasts of the MoMA – http://mod.blogs.com/art_mobs/
Class Information Site:
Chemistry221 – htp://chemisrty.blogspot.com
Ellie's 7th Grade Math Blog – http://grade7math.blogspot.com/
Professional Community
Blogabout blogging – http://pedagogy.cwrl.utexas.edu/

Read more about blogging in the classroom and take a look at the book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms