Podcast 110

1) Basically all that a podcast is is a combination between an ipod and broadcasting. Hence the name, podcast! Podcast is better than a radio because when you want to listen to something the choices are unlimited. When you listen to a radio station the choices that you have are limited and have been selected for you already. They both let you listen to music and interviews, but with a podcast you can listen and watch things at the exact same time.

2) There are a whole bunch of examples out there that show how a podcast be used in any classroom setting and how it can help the students learn better. You can students access there homework from home if you list and assignment after school for them, they can listen to famous people give speeches that are sometimes hard to read, you can record sounds for blind students to listen to, you can have them make a project using both pictures and sounds and produce something like a movie, you can also make a lesson for a student to listen to if they are having a hard time in a math class like the lady did on podcast 110, and it allows students to communicate with other students on the other parts of the world.

3) Teachers like pod casting because they can post homework online for kids that have accounts, it allows them to demonstrate things such as field trips because the student can hear sounds that are recorded on a podcast, and the last thing is that students can study while entertaining themselves by listening to their voice while going over their homework.

4 and 5) Some teachers don't like pod casts because they feel that it can hinder a child's learning. Also from other things that I have seen or heard about children like to recreational things sometimes instead of studying. This is the only real problem that I could see from this and I to had a hard time listening to the podcast because my body had other things that I could be doing. I guess it can be effective if the student forces themselves to listen and only listen. If they can't do that then they make a problem with learning in the classroom.