Podcasting

Podcasting is a digital recording of information that can be accessed through the internet. Podcasting is just a digital recording and a vodcasting is a video recording that is posted on the internet. Podcasting could be used for students who missed classes or who want to review information for for an exam. Podcasting could also be part of a webquest. Students could also create podcasts or vodcasts that discussed topics that are learned in class or as part of a research project. Students could create a podcast to discuss the summary of a story, the water cycle, the steps of mummification, or the definitions of the different quadrilaterals. The students could even do a podcast for a jigsaw project for a history or science chapter.

I teach kindergarten so I do not see how podcasts would work for my students. Their technology skills are not strong enough to create their own podcasts and they would not know how to even access a podcast. I would use a vodcast for my class before I would use a podcast. I could create a vodcast on our currant subject of subtraction or comparing the difference between polar bears, grizzly bears, brown bears, and black bears.