Podcasting is something I have experienced through my TAMU-C courses but not anywhere else. I think Podcasting has great potential for education. There are many mini-lessons or smaller tasks that a teacher can teach by creating a Podcast and playing it for students or posting it on a webpage. Podcasts on a webpage can be viewed by students at their convenience or multiple times if they need the information and have trouble remembering what was taught.
Creating a Podcast library would be incredibly beneficial to students and teachers. A Podcast library would reduce class time being used on review. Any student who requires reteaching or review could refer to the class Podcast collection to get the information they need. A Podcast library would also be a wonderful class addition for students with special needs (especially those with short term memory loss) or for students who are absent from class. Kids would be able to refer to the Podcasts to catch up on work. I believe that the future for Podcasts in education is very bright, if we can just get teachers to buy into them.
Podcasts will work well in my library. I created my first Podcast on using the online library system for eBooks and reserving specific titles from the library. This is a topic I have introduced to students, but they need to see how to use the online library repeatedly in order to truly understand how to use it. Practice does make perfect, and my students will learn using the Podcast. I also love that I can make one Podcast video that I can play for the entire campus and upload it to my webpage. Rather than teaching the same lesson to 750 students in 50 different classes, I can make one video and play it for all classes. This initial Podcast will be the first of many for me.
Now all I have to do is figure out how to make a Podcast library on my webpage!
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