Hello Once Again Everyone!! I hope your spirits are high and you have a very exciting weekend planned ahead.
For this weeks Education Response, I want to talk about Podcasts because some interesting things popped up this week about Podcast and I want to share them with you.
Last week I blogged about podcast and how neat I thought they were. I also provided a few links to some interesting Pods so if you wanna check them out, head over to my last few posts.
What I like about Podcasts is you can listen to them whenever and wherever one wants to. Running at the gym, working on the computer, driving, or trying to keep yourself entertained at a relative's house, Podcasts are entertaining and educational.
Now take a look at the video I posted below. It is called Wizard People, Dear Reader . This is originally an audio file of a man narrating the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and someone took the audio file and put the movie with it. Originally, one was to play the audio file and watch the movie on mute. But it seems someone took the audio file and mashed it with the video on Youtube.
Now while this is an Audio story, it is similar to a Podcast and gave me some ideas of how to do something similar like this in a class room. For example, I could take a movie adaptation of a Shakespeare play and have groups of students do that same thing for a short portion of the movie adapting the language into a more modern speak to try and make the story easier to pick up.
Most of all, I am excited to do the Podcast assignment in class so I can finally try doing one myself and see what it is like. I think students would cling to Podcasts because it is something new and not often done.
Overall, I really like the idea of Podcasts and I can see so many uses for them in a classroom. What do you all think? Do you think something like Wizard People, Dear Reader (minus the fowl language) could be a cool idea for an English class?
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy your weekend! Feel free to leave a comment or anything! I love receiving feedback :)
Until next time, take care and remember....
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-Joey S.
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After last week and listening to some pod casts on my own, I too have a better idea of what I want to do on my podcast. Love the Harry Potter references too Joey ;)I think doing a podcast in high school classes would peak the kids interests because they get to talk about things that they are into on their own "show."
ReplyDeleteJoey,
ReplyDeleteI love your idea. One way students can easily do voice overs without having to import video is called Jing. Have any of you heard of it? It's a screen capture program. You download it (for free), and then you narrate as you navigate (or in this case watch video) and it creates a video of what is on your screen.
I think it's a wonderful tool for those that don't want to get into video editing. Check it out...it's really simple and effective.