Podcasts

This week I experimented with podcasting for the first time. I have been taking online classes for almost 2 years and have always wondered how professors capture these. I never realized just how easy it was. I chose to create a podcast to walk people through the website www.thinkfinity.org. I use this website all the time as a teacher. It searches various sites for lesson plans, interactives, and activities for students and teachers. I showed the various ways you can search on the site and what kinds of resources you can get. I have found that podcasts help me a lot when taking online classes just so I can have am example of what I should be doing. So I have to imagine that it would be helpful with my classes. I could se myself doing quick lectures or examples of problems so that my students could access them at home and have this resource to help with homework or to study.
I used Jing to create my podcast. It was super simple. I downloaded the free software, set up an account very quickly and was ready to go. I walked through the instructions and created my podcast in less then 10 minutes. The only difficultly I found was that I messed up towards the end of my video and wanted to just record over it, but I couldn't figure out how to do that and ended up just re-recording the whole thing. I could definitely see myself using podcasts again for many of the reasons I stated above. Also this could be useful in training teachers in the building, so we could get trainings or information on our schedule and not have to have a meeting as a set time. I could also see my district using these to walk through grade book technology. Every time I post grades I always forget the sequence, or leave a step out. If we have the steps somewhere in a podcast I could just refer to it when I needed it.