Podcast

When I set out to complete week 3 assignments for my class I was excited to see that we were going to be using iTunes.  I have downloaded music before but I never used the section on podcasts.  Throughout my bachelors degree I had teachers who used podcast to explain different topics to us but I have never used them off of iTunes.

                The first podcast I downloaded was Storynory- Stories for kids.  There were many different stories that you could download for children to listen to. I found the stories to be interesting and I believe that the students in my class would like to listen to them as well.  I think this podcast would be even better if I could find the actual story to go along with it.

                The second podcast that I subscribed to was Google Tools.  I felt that this was a great resource for teachers to use.  Google is so much more than a search engine and this podcast actually had a video that went with it and actually showed you how to use different tools that Google offers.

                I liked that iTunes is very easy to use. However, I felt like there was not a lot of material that I could use with the students in my class. I also had trouble seeing the video to some podcasts.  Overall though using iTunes to download podcasts was very easy. I could also picture myself creating podcast to use in my classroom.  I also could see using Storynory for students in my class to listen to stories while at listening to reading center.