Area 3 Writing Project Blog

Podcasting is another one of those “tools for everyone,” given that all you need is access to the Internet, a microphone, and a free audio editing program such as Audacity. But like any genre, to learn it, we need good models and ideas for incorporating the tool into the classroom, such as I’ve listed below:

• Colonial Williamsburg – Past and Present Podcasts – Professional actors and historians
  
• Sugihara Letters – 6th graders in Jim Faires’s class
• YA! Reads – Rob Rozema’s pre-service teachers

Here’s a peek at what podcasting looks like in the classroom:

What are your ideas on how podcasting can help teachers and students?

I’m posting the newest version of Karl Fisch’s wonderful – just keeps getting better – Did You Know video because it was probably the most uploaded video in today’s session.