Using & Teaching Educational Technology
Podcasting in schools
By Terry Freedman
Sat, 11 Mar 2006, 07:53

So, you know what podcasting is, but are wondering how you might use it with your students? Here's a quick list to help you get the mental juices flowing!

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This is not meant to be a definitive list!

• Record lessons for students (and parents!) to access in their own time.
• Enable students to do a presentation about themselves rather than only sticking to PowerPoint!
• Create a short introduction to your school, or the course you run, for potential to access, and to let parents know what they can expect their children to be doing -- get student contributions too!
• Create a class or even a whole-school radio station.
• Enable students to submit work in the form of a podcast.
• Create audio resources for use by sight-impaired students.
• Find and use podcasts as part of project research materials.
• Use foreign language podcasts to improve linguistic skills.
• Use podcasts to get an insight into another country's culture, or another person's daily lifestyle.
• Enable students to create dynamic presentations without the complexity of digital video.
• Subscribe to various podcasts in different subjects in order to provide extra curriculum resources at virtually no cost.
• Provide students with a different way of carrying out surveys in the local area.
• Create an audio blog of a school field trip.
• Create an enhanced podcast entitled "My summer holiday".
• Subscribe or listen to different podcasts in order to help students develop their critical faculties.
• Ask students to create a podcast to meet a real need, as part of a coursework project, for example for a local business.

© Terry Freedman Sat, 11 Mar 2006