I had never explored Audacity until being introduced to podcasts in class. I absolutely love how easy it is to use and after using the internal mic on my computer to interview a student (for my group's advocacy project), I'm hooked! I think there are endless opportunities. I'd love to have students use them to share the highlights of their week (which I could post to our blackboard site), practice reading with expression (perhaps even acting out a readers' theatre script), explain a process in Science or Math. I can even create a podcast when teaching an important topic so that my students could listen to it later (or for absent students who may have missed that day's lesson). The opportunities abound! Here are two sites I found that gives some ideas for teachers looking to use podcasts in their instruction:
http://weblogs.ccsd.k12.co.us/sarc/jsluiter/jane/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/classroom-ideas-for-podcasting.doc
http://fcit.usf.edu/podcasts/book_talks.html
I found this New York Times article that falls right in line with all the benefits we've been learning about the use of podcasts with our students: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/25podcast.html
Like the teacher in the article notes, podcasts motivate students because they provide a worldwide audience, rather than a grade for the teacher to slap on a project and they can be used in any subject area.
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Good for you Nicole doing some extra research. I'm definitely interested in using podcasts in the classroom, and are looking for some other ideas. I'll be checking out those sites. Thanks for posting. :)
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