Podcast: Earths Tilt and Why it Causes Seasons

Earths Tilt and Why It Causes Seasons

UEN:

Standard 2 Students will understand how Earth's tilt on its axis changes the length of daylight and creates the seasons.

Education Technology:

Standard 6 Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate with others in support of direct and independent learning and for pursuit of personal interests. (4)

ISTE:

Creative Communicator Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

The tool that I chose to use was a Podcast. This would be a fun tool to use when you are presenting information that can be easily understood, with just talking or explanation.  I could use this now when presenting information, it would even be fun to make a podcast on my journey through school and the education program.  This would be fun for my future classroom because it would be information that students would be able to access as many times as they want and they can listen to it as many times as they would like to.  

The Pros of this tool is that it was fun to make and it was exciting to record something that could be listened to over and over again.  I had help with the whole recording process, which was really nice, but otherwise it may have been harder to figure out.

The Cons of this tool is that you have to get the episode almost perfect or right because if you don’t some of the mess ups that you have can be fixed, but not all of them.  You also want to make it sound like you are enjoying yourself and also being yourself, which was a little hard when reading a script.  

I will use this tool in my classroom when my students need to be able to listen to stuff that I have taught.  This is kind of similar to having or taking a recording of a lesson, my students would be able to go over the material as much as they wanted in order to understand.  

My students can use this tool for projects, if they want to make a podcast for a project where they can teach something easily that would be great. They can also make podcasts as a way that they could study for things that they need to remember.  This might help them because they are teaching it and they can also listen to it.