Podcasting

Podcasting is rapidly growing in popularity. So what is a podcast?
It is a form of transporting audio directly from the internet to portable media players such as iPods.

Podcast in early childhood learning
 Students reading a story (Germano, 2008)
 Interviews (Shelley, n.d.)
 Allows students to share learning experiences (Department of Education: Western Australia, 2010)
 Promotes the use of technology – 21st century learning (Department of Education: Western Australia, 2010)

DEMONSTRATION OF THE USE OF PODCASTING IN EARLY YEARS
Here is an MP3 that I found of children recording their names and stating what the first letter of their name is……

Check out this site and download the MP3: http://blogs.scholastic.com/early_childhood_teacher/2008/09/podcasting.html
a_my_name_is_book_scholastic.mp3 (Germano, 2008)

Activity:
What do you see?
Image from: (Lyons, 2010 – Personal Communication)

Types of Questions asked

1. Is this photo 2D or 3D?
2. How does this photo make you feel?
3. What colour, shape and texture do you see?
4. What is the photo showing?
5. What can you see?

Listen to the podcast Number 1 below.

1. http://blackdog.net/midi/bark.wav
Sound from: (Find Sounds, n.d.)

What was it a sound of?
Can you see this animal in the photo?

This could be repeated with different sounds to stimulate thinking and imagination.


References
Find Sounds. (n.d.). Find sounds. Retrieved from http://www.findsounds.com/types.html
Department of Education: Western Australia. (2010). Podcasts in the classroom. Retrieved from http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/podcasts/
Germano, C. (2008). Christina’s classroom. Retrieved from http://blogs.scholastic.com/early_childhood_teacher/2008/09/podcasting.html
Shelly, N. (n.d.). Podcasting in the classroom. Retrieved from http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~nshelley/