This blog is a review on last semesters podcasts done by USA students. The first podcast I listened to was titled Possibilities for Using Facebook in an Educational Setting . The podcasters are Allison Midgette and Shaundretta Bethel. As a beginning listener of podcasts, I didn't know exactly how to critique a podcast show. But because of a prior blog assignment where I had to listen to several podcasts, I knew that one thing you should have in a podcast is conversation among the podcasters. And even though this particular podcast was very well informing, there was a lack of conversation amongst the podcasters. I think they did exceptionally well as far as providing research information to their listeners, but that was basically it.
In this podcast, they discussed different tools that can be used on Facebook by both students and teachers/Administrators. This information was useful because as a user of Facebook, I didn't know it could be used in an educational way. I just basically use it as a social means of meeting new people and getting or keeping in contact with old friends. So the research that they did was great. But I would have liked to have heard more interaction between the two.
The next podcast I listened to was called Useful Internet Sites for Elementary Teachers . This podcast was done by Rosilynn Harris, Marlena Marsh, and Tomeka Washington. I also found this podcast to be very informative. This topic was based on web sites Elementary Teachers could use in their classroom for their professional use and for their students. Each person took turns telling listeners specific sites they found and what each site is used for. One site I thought was interesting was Edhelper . This site offers worksheets that teachers could use to assign homework on and its also useful for parents because they could use it to help their child with their homework. But they also didn't really converse on the topic. They basically sounded like they were reading their research.
So I received a lot of information that would be useful for me as a future Elementary Teacher while listening to these podcasts, but it was kinda boring. There wasn't any talking or laughing that I had listened to in those podcasts done by professional podcasters on itunes. So that's what I was looking for, but didn't get. So that's one technique I plan to implement in my groups podcast.
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