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Teaching Ideas > I.C.T. Ideas

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ict/podcasting.htm

Great overview of podcasting and why it is good practice:

It gives them a potential audience of thousands for their work.

It’s great for develop literacy skills (writing scripts, setting up interviews etc), allows them to develop and practise their speaking and listening skills, and they also learn some amazing ICT skills.

Podcasts can be interactive, and the audience can be invited to send their comments, giving valuable feedback to the children about their work.

I’ve found that making a podcast is also great for developing teamwork skills. The children always work together really well, as they’re always keen to make a great show.

From Mark Warner who’s class produce The Downs FM

podcast.

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for those interested in RSS this is a new tool to pull together various RSS feeds. SuprGlu

I gave it a quick try:

johnjohnston

which displays a couple of my blogs my del.icio.us and flickr accounts and the school podcast, took about 2 minutes to setup.

Obviously this example is not much use, but I can imagine a time when you could connect together a set of photos links and blog posts into one resource for pupils? As you seem to be able to pass SuprGlu any rss feed you could provide a particular category of photos from flickr, tags from del.icio.us etc.

I am going to have to wait until I’ve a few more than 2 internet connected computers in my class before we could really exploit this. I must admit internet research is not a frequent part of individuals in my classes daily practice. All together on the whiteboard, lets google this is more like it.

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Today should have been a good day for the Sandaig Otters blog.

It was a whole school display day. All the classes pull together to produce a new display for or dining hall. Lots of things going on, but we are off timetable so I should have had some great chances to get some children blogging between art activities. I planned to have some going round taking photos of all the art activities in school and blogging that. I had a few poems in jotters that should have been blogged too.

It didn’t happen, I just got too busy with other things. I really need to get blogging into our daily routine fitting in with the rest of the curriculum. Too often it is an add-on or afterthought.

I did manage to test the video conferencing unit contacting Richmond Park in the afternoon, although this was just a test my class were pretty interested (ie shouting hi very loudly and waving enthusiastically to the staff at the other end) , which bodes well for later on when they will be conferencing with a few other schools.

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Emilia’s brain seems to have been invaded by some wierd alien plant life form whose tendrils spread out in all directions!!

Art Gallery: Emilia one of a set of beautiful drawings by children mapping their minds.

More wonderful and stranger than I would have imagined.

Quote:

Following a discussion of individual learning preferences and discussion of a variety of different approaches to thinking and just what a brilliant tool the mind was, pupils were asked to draw the layout and organisation of their minds. As you can see the results were fascinating and I have really got my work cut out to find space to cram in any new learning!!!

Linked from and part of The Blogging Zone a new to me teacher/children blog.