Podcasting

As often as I get down on the whole fast-paced wave of contemporary technology, I believe podcasts to be one of the best things to come out of it all. I used to think of podcasts as something only professionals would do. That alone was pretty great, I thought. All this free in-depth material on most any subject that might interest you was really a wonderful expression of the persistence of generosity, even among corporations, I thought.

But Richardson and this course have helped me to see that podcasting is for amateurs as much (if not more) as it is for professionals. There seems to be a lot of fertile, uncharted ground to be explored and harnessed for the educational field. Whether it's kids creating their own realm of information, in which "students [teach] other students what they've learned" (Richardson 114), or a teacher providing a podcast of each day's activities and assignments for students to reference at home (as suggested, I think, by someone in our class), I think all that is necessary is a little time and commitment to learning & teaching the simple process of podcasting. 

I'm trying to think of ways I could use this technology in the high school English class. I suspect the possibilities are myriad...