julz little bit of everything blog: NM TIE Podcasting Workshop

I'm helping Bethany today at the NM TIE conference with her podcasting workshop. We started by investigating iTunes and EPN - http://epnweb.org.

Right away, some folks found a couple of very cool things:

Tamara found Willow Web, an elementary podcast show at EPN and she said she listened to elementary students expressing their knowledge about the constitution in authentic way to an audience of their peers (and a global audience).
Jim noted that the second language podcasts, specifically the French ones, at EPN were just like taking a class.
Gail noted that in the general topics of EPN, there were 137 podcasts for English and 9 for math...

Then they came up with some great ideas for uses of podcasts!

Have students record and edit movies and broadcast via podcast - moviecasting!
Creating tech instructional podcast on how to do various tasks like email
Opportunities for training on district-wide systems
Have students do podcast presentations, thereby addressing the issues of time where you can't get everyone up in front of the class. An immediate win is that students don't often get the opportunity to hear themselves and self-critique until college.
Virtual campus/school tours
Audio quiz/audio answers
Library could do weekly/monthly podcast on new or featured books, bibliographic or library use
Enhancement to lessons
Students in the hospital never gets the full class experience, could get more of an experience with a vodcast
This workshop could have been podcast
Coaches created podcasts of the team plays and the team listened and learned on the bus

Some advantages were brought up:

Focused, what you want when you want, just-in-time learning, segmenting, smaller files
Addressing different learners
Reaching more students
Achieving hard to achieve educational goals
21st Century Skills addressed

Next everyone is going to use the following to create podcasts right here, right now.