Since I'm interested in language I listened to several podcasts related to language and literature. Some were good, and some were TERRIBLE. Here's a link to one that is terrible: http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Languages/Vocabulary-Building/Fifteen-Thousand-Useful-Phrases/34796 (Be advised that it seems to take this link Forever to load, but it does load.)
Just click on the "Listen to Podcast" underneath the title if you really want to hear it. I thought it was ironic that a podcast devoted specifically to using language would be so stuffed-shirt awful! (But I must say that the lady sure follows her own advice of articulating beautifully.)
In case you are wondering why I haven't linked to the podcasts I liked, it's because I'm having trouble finding them again, and I'm too lazy to spend the time to find them again. I listened to one on idioms that I really liked, which I thought would be good for older elementary students, and I listened to another podcast devoted specifically to just reading fables to children. I thought that site would have been a good one to play while children were doing a creative writing assignment. Kindergarten students could draw a picture and write a few words or a short sentence while listening to it. It would increase their vocabulary and build fluency in using language.
I thought it was a little confusing to navigate all of the directories. I was eventually able to figure out how to listen to podcasts on all of them except Podcastalley.com. After a bit of navigating on it, I discovered that it's apparently necessary to download different applications to listen to different things. Some of the comments about the downloads were often negative, so I just didn't want to deal with downloading them. It was just easier to use the other directories and not have to deal with that. I guess Learn Out Loud was probably the easiest directory to use.
This Thing hasn't inspired me to use podcasts with my students. Mrs. Castleberry's comments in class and my research for a podcast to use with my Livetext project were what initially gave me ideas for HOW podcasts could be used with students. This Thing has simply given me an additional resource for finding podcasts that could be used in class.
I didn't find a podcast that I might subscribe to or listen to regularly. I don't have time to listen to podcasts right now. But, I know there are podcasts that I might listen to in the future, and now I have a resource for easily finding them.
No comments:
Post a Comment