Podcasting

==Podcasting is a tool that can be very useful in classrooms. It can be used to record a lecture so that students can listen to them at their leisure or it can be used as a "book on tape" for students in the younger grades. Podcasts are great for accompanying books that young students are reading. That way they can read along with the words as the hear them. Podcasts really aren't very difficult to make either. Using a program called Garage Band teachers can record themselves reading a story and add music and sounds to enhance the story. In the Podcast format they can be uploaded into I-Tunes and onto I-Pods making them very accessible to students. Below is a Podcast that Anna, Alannah and I made on a book about the first Thanksgiving. There is music and sound effects to make the story more fun to listen to! The students would be reading along in the book and they can also look at the pictures! ==

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