Chapter 8 Reactions

Pod casting is another technological medium that I knew nothing about. I hear all the time on NPR and ESPN radio about downloading podcast of their shows, but I never really knew what it was. I assumed it was just bits and pieces of their radio shows. As I read the chapter on Podcast, I found out that there are plenty of other uses for these podcast than just what I first thought. As with any information that I learned new this year, I wanted to the education aspect of this technology. I liked some of the ideas that the book set fourth, as for uses within the classroom. The school that I went to did not have radio station, but I always thought it would have been cool if we did. Besides that, there are even more uses within the classroom. I like the idea about creating oral histories in a social studies class. There can also be interviews and reenactments done as well. This gives the students in a history class many options to implement the use of podcast, and not just for entertainment. I might even think about incorporating podcast in my class.