Pod casts

Podcasts are becoming more and more popular in today's society. I was listening to KidCast and the guy was talking about how podcasts are really helping out students in making learning fun and engaging their interest in school studies. What is also helping out is kids making their own pod casts as a learning tool.
Podcasts is like specific news and/or information. If you want to know about something, you can search for podcasts and most likely something will come up and interest you. Honestly, I thought podcasts were just tv, cartoon, or movies that you can view. I think that it is really cool that there is education podcasts as well. And what also makes podcasts worth checking out is that most of them are free!
The SmartBoard podcast's first 10 minutes gives the vibe of a talk show that is discussing education news and information. In a way, it is actually pretty boring. I have had podcasts before but I could actually view a video. All the podcasts I downloaded, it is just listening to people talk.
I decided to switch up some of the podcasts and downloaded Teachers Teaching Teachers. I found it under education and the K-12 section. It is about keeping it real in the New York public school system. All the teachers are sharing how they engaged their students in the classroom. It also gave a lot of praise and positive testimony's toward using podcasts in the classroom.
The EdTalk was more interesting because there was a video for me to watch. iMovies is pretty cool because you can make your own video and upload it to itunes and share with the world and it is extremely easy to do. It's nice that technology is getting easier to use so that everyone can use it. Now being too young or too old is not a valid excuse on why one cannot use a computer or all the new helpful technology that is available to us!