In classrooms all across the country, there are teachers standing in front of the classroom giving their lectures to students who would rather be anywhere else but in class. What if there was a way for these students to receive information from the daily lecture, while being outside the classroom? Is it possible for students to be engaged in learning while sitting on the beach in Santa Cruz on a sunny Friday afternoon?
The answer is yes!!! The era of pod-casting is here and is revolutionizing the way that information is being sent and received. Pod-casting, in layman's terms, is broadcasting over the internet. Pod-casting is simple and harmless. All you need is a basic microphone, an audio recording program such as Audacity, and a hosting site like archive.org.
Pod-casting is an excellent way to get students involved in the Socratic method of learning through discussion. Through pod-casting, students can take your lecture on the go. They can tune in to a pod-cast how to find the square root of 64, and listen to ways in which to solve variable expressions.
I think that pod-casting is an excellent teaching tool for working with ELL students. When you bring pod-casting into the classroom, you open the door to individual learning by allowing the students to literally speak their mind!
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