Podcasting as a teaching tool

How to implement podcasts to your class effectively?

Podcasts are an excellent tool for sharing information. It's a piece of creation and distribution of voice possibly mixed up with music productions.

It's a publishing tool for student oral presentations.
Teachers can use them for:
Recording their lessons and putting them online,
Recording of students' presenations to help them improve their speaking skills,
Book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters,
interviews,
debates,
distribution of radio show.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows people to subscribe to a podcast and view new posts when they are publihsed.

The wide range of educational podcasts can be found at
Education Podcast Network. It's a great directory for educators. There are links to suggested classroom uses broken down by grade level and subject.

Here it is a collection of sources that you can find useful when thinking about using podcasts in your class.

Podcast page of Mr. Brandon's Weblog Magaine.

Radio WillowWeb from the Willowdale Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska.

Room 2008 (Bob Sprinkle's third and fourth grade podcast)covers school weekly events, field trips, students' reactions.

http://podcastsined.blogspot.com/

Getting Started with Podcasting:
Gcast is a free software that allows you to create and publish your podcasts.


Download Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows and LAME MP3 encoder that allows Audacity export MP3 files (when download LAME MP3 encoder save it in the same folder where Audacilty is saved),
Open Audacity
Plug a microphone into your computer and click "Record" button in Audacity screen.
After having saved your files, you can edit them by using the "Import Audio" under the Project section.
To share your podcast you need to transfer the MP3 file from your computer to a server (ftp:).