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A podcast is a digital media file, or a related collection of such files, which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The term, like "radio", can refer either to the content itself or to the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also termed podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster.
We've started using podcasts as another form of communication to you, the friends of room 5! I've managed to work through some tech hiccups and we'll experiment with gcast, a free host for audio files online.
The first episode, a trial really, is an interview with Megan that explains the class expectations for our spelling programme. It may pay to listen if you are a confused parent?! (I realise some of the students messages come home a little scrambled...)
Click on the podcast box in the side bar - right hand side (click on 'posts' to get a full list of the podcast files)
Tell us what you think of podcasts and whether you have some ideas about how we could use it!
Room5 thinks that we could record some people's writing, maybe about the athletics day tomorrow. We could also use it as a reward for one person to have a 'say what you want to say' 30 seconds sound byte, we could share what we are doing online and what we've found and we could make a playlist of Christmas songs like a radio station!
Very cool... I liked Megan's explanation of the spelling. She speaks really clearly, but I couldn't understand what Yoda was saying.
By the way, when you get a moment in Room 5, you could check out our Room 13 blog. I need to see Mr Herring about setting up Podcasting too :-)
November 28, 2007 5:13 PM