Podcast Response
Greetings,
I just finished listening this podcast from the Education Podcast Network. The topic of this is one that is very near my heart, i.e. Trivia. Although I did not do very well answering the questions, I can see the potential of podcasts.
If I wanted to allow students the possibility for extra credit, I could produce a trivia podcast in a similar manner, and then have the students answer and turn it in by some arbitrary date. I could ask random questions, and have the students look up the answers on the internet. By doing so this would allow students to do independent extra credit work, and perhaps inspire an independent interest in history, as it isn’t in-class material that inspires life-long interest.
Another way to use podcasts for classroom enrichment is an explanation of homework, or even a lecture. In a social studies class, I could podcast either the lecture portion of the class, or summarize the main points in a briefer podcast.
Either way, podcasting does seem to have a great deal of potential with regards to classroom enrichment.
