Looking for ways to get kids more involved in lessons? Try letting students create a podcast. Many students around the world are making classroom podcasts to enhance learning. Fifth graders in Mr. Coley's social studies class get together after each lesson to put together a podcast script. (Read more at http://www.edutopia.org/podcasting-student-broadcasts.) Podcasting gives students an additional opportunity to go over the information that they were just taught and collaborate with other students. While being able to record your voice is nothing new (my brother and I used to make "radio shows" in our basement on cassette tape), students can now record themselves with computers and then carry their recordings around on their iPods. Pretty cool, huh? Kids like having their work published, and what better way to share their work with the world- that's right, the world- than giving them the opportunity to make a podcast.
(photo from iCLIPART)
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