Podcasts

Kid Cast – This podcast was pretty much taking about all of the different ways you could incorporate an iPod with podcasts in the classroom without allowing passive learning. The speaker wants his listeners to understand how important it is to actively engage students in podcasts as they experience new content. Students should reflect on the podcast, take notes and bookmark, rather than just listen to a podcast passively. He also explains that a good podcast asks questions to actively engage students/listeners. After all, the students will control the podcast they are listening to by pausing and reflecting and even writing in a journal to reflect on their opinions of the podcast.

Mac Break Weekly- Only interesting if you own a Mac, which I do not. I think I will stick with hp after listening to that horribly boring podcast. They also talk about how much they are disappointed with itunes and some of the things that apple is doing. They also talk about twitter imac podcasts and itunes. It seems that they know a lot about this type of technology. Overall, they are just talking about all of the little things that they do not like with certain programs.

TWIP- The speakers are obviously photographers so they seem to talk a lot about CAMERAS. Narcissism, news of the week, pocket wizard and cameras are a few of the different topics that they talk about in their podcast. They also have picks of the week which include flicker, color quality of camera and short films. This podcast did not really keep my attention. They were just all over the board with different topics. Perhaps they should limit their topics.

KidCast- The music was interesting but it definitely made it easier to not exit right out of the podcast. But their voices were very boring it definitely did not sound like they were interested in what they were talking about, which made it hard for me to be interested in what they were taking about.

SmartBoard- Much better podcast because it involved students and teachers connecting with podcasts. They also talked about using white boards/ smartboards in the classroom. The board actually has an internet connection . The speakers actually acted like they were having fun which made it easier to listen to.