Today we spent the class period writing and recording our Podcasts. I worked with Angelina Dulong as a team. We wrote our storyboard rather quickly and wanted to try to get everything recorded during the class period. We were able to record using my iPad by quickly downloading software capable of recording the Podcast on the spot. We downloaded a free tool called Audio Memos Free that made a clear and quality recording. It amazes me how fast and available technology makes assignments like this. When I was a little girl, one of my favorite games to play with my sister was "radio station." We used to spend hours recording ourselves talking on a small tape recorder, and we were always burning through batteries and recording over audio tapes so many times that the tape would wear out or break. Using my iPad was such a seamless and easy process! We had to re-record three times, and the whole thing still only took about five minutes. My biggest frustration has been that my iPad has been unwilling, thus far, to email the file to Angelina and me. I suppose I will have to go to my office computer and manually download the file to email it. But still, a minor obstacle in comparison to what this assignment would have been 10-15 years ago.
I think Podcasts are a very useful tool for my future classroom. I can see the capability for recording an assignment or lecture and posting it for my students to download. However, even more so, I can see the functionality for my students to record presentations and other parts of assignments to share with their classmates. This type of interactive media makes the classroom and learning resources more accessible than ever before.
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