First of all, why the interest in podcasting in a science classroom? In looking at how students learn, it is important to construct a classroom environment that fosters construction of knowledge and not just doing worksheets. My students struggle with reading and reading comprehension. I complained to a seasoned educator that my [...]
This week, my students focused on the concept of the four phases of matter. This is a fairly abstract concept. Students can not actually see the atoms and there were several misconceptions addressed as we prepared to write the script for the podcast. I tried this week to improve the quality of the sound, but [...]
I will edit these so they are hyperlinked later…got to run…time for the season premire of ER.
Apple’s guide is the best instruction to follow for the command line approach, but a number of industrious developers have created graphical utilities to make this even easier for a nominal cost (some free).
ChapterMeTool
http://www.rbsoftware.net/?page=ctm
Podcast AV
http://www.oldjewelsoftware.com/products/podcastav/
Podcast Enhancer
http://scriptbuilders.net/files/podcastenhancer0.3.html
Here are [...]
This week, we are creating our second podcast in Earth Science. I received on comment from Dave Warlick that my students were every proud of. The smile on their faces was worth a million dollars. Someone they had never heard of had listened to there work. I had one person email [...]
Click the link above to download the .m4a file. This is our first attempt to create a class podcast. The theme of this podcast is a “on the scene news reporter”. The topic is atoms. The assignment was for students to pretend that they were famous experts. The reporter [...]
