Podcasting

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The above audio track is a podcast that I prepared. My podcast is about my teaching philosophy and integrates music, and speech communication. This project was done using a program called Audacity and can be downloaded at this website: @http://audacity.sourceforge.net/.

I had used Audacity in the past and found it to be a very enjoyable and useful tool. I thought that practicing with it again allowed me to become more familiar with different tools that were at my fingertips in the program. It also gave me the chance to think more about my teaching philosophy and verbalize how I feel about education.

In my classroom, I would like to use this for a class project. I think that students could be radio reporters using this program. They could work on a story about history, mathematics, a scientific development, anything at all. They could write out their script either alone or with a partner. If they chose to work with a partner, they could each work on their own, then one could create an MP3 from their file and upload it to their partners working Audacity file. Then they could integrate one into the other to make it sound like a radio show. This would give students the chance to experiment alone with technology, teach them about science or whatever the project is about, and also teach them how to work together on a project.