In Reading and Writing across the Curriculum, we created podcasts that summarized the main issues we talked about in a literature circle on Chew on This. We were able to create a product that allowed our professor to hear what we had talked about in our literature circles even though she wasn’t there. This is a really great tool for assessing discussions within the classroom – a teacher wouldn’t have to assess based on a few minutes she saw. She could have them podcast the entire discussion and then do a separate file with a summary. All the summaries would be listened to, and the whole discussions could be spot-checked to help ensure that students don’t get off-task during the discussions.
And that was just one example of the use of podcasting. After reading the chapter in Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, I can think of many different ways to use it in my classroom: podcasts explaining concepts, screencasts of our lab experiments/activities, newsletters of a sort to convey what we’re learning about, group podcasts, individual podcasts, and let’s not forget using the podcasts of others to teach content. I have a lot of interesting ideas about how to use this medium in my own classroom, and I’m really excited about it.
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