Blog Post #4

Podcasting with kids

Podcasting. It is something I never thought I would find myself doing let alone reading about 1st graders who were doing it. Ms. Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano gives a good example of how she has used podcasting with her 1st graders and how successful it can be. Check out 1st graders creates their own read-along audio book.

Podcasting is something that really is not that difficult, but it does require you to give it lots of attention. You can accomplish many things via podcasting such as audiobooks, as Ms. Tolisano shows us, lectures, and recording personal thoughts and feelings about a given subject. Podcasting makes you very aware of yourself, your voice, your word choice, and even the subject matter your covering. I think it can be a very self-reflecting process.

I can see using podcasting in classrooms because it lets your students engage in something new and exciting. It would make students want to participate and put their best effort into something so big and wonderful. It also lets them reflect on the things that I spoke of above.

And I also must say this I am personally nervous and not looking forward to podcasting because I do not like hearing my voice recorded. So the upcoming projects that require us to do podcasting are going to be interesting.