Quick Notes:
- Options for Podcast recordings: Vocaroo, Audacity, SoundCloud, Internet Archive and Anchor
Today's Reflection: How can I use podcasts in my personal and professional life?
- When I'm working out I usually listen to music, but I've started compiling a list of podcasts about topics that I'm interested in. Tomorrow for my workout I'm going to try listening to a podcast instead and see if I like it better. I would also definitely switch music for podcasts during my walks and while I'm running errands or doing housework.
- Thinking back to earlier in our class about our professional networks and communities, I think podcasts would be a really easy way for me to contribute to my professional community. As teachers we are master multi-taskers and I feel like podcasts are a quick, easy, accessible, hands-free way to communicate with other educators.
- Podcasts would also be excellent tools for teaching a variety of subjects such as speech, language, music, online tutoring, and distance education. Since the technology to create a podcast is so simple and accessible, it also opens up a ton of possibilities for collaboration with educators or classrooms anywhere around the world.
- Lastly, podcasts or recorded audio makes for really easy, low-prep sub plans that can be easily followed by anyone filling in.
- For my first podcast I created a quick sound clip that could be used for early years classes learning about different animal sounds. When I was teaching music, I would have used this with my Nursery and Kindergarten students as an activating activity.
Great point about sub prep. Mindmeister is also perfect for that purpose, just share the link and they can see the whole lesson with all the details and resources and they can make notes to let you know how it went.
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