Response 3

I have listened to several blogs at this point. It's pretty easy to see what they are about. You deliver content, usually there's music in the background. I liked the one of a teacher downstairs in his basement, on his "off" time, deciding to use that time to nonchalantly review with his class the things they will find on an upcoming test. In that sense, it was not student generated at all. The ones from Willow were so cute. I mean, first graders were handling broadcasts! As we have yet to delve into the "how" of the technology, I will patiently relax and trust that this, too, is something I can master. I can see utlizing a podcast within our 11th grade history to discsuss some content-the Compromise of 1850, maybe. But, as always, I will be struggling with my unmotivated students to NOT use this communication forum to fool around instead and do something on ITunes that they shouldn't. My fist time out with this, then, willl have to be very well structured and scripted. But as a style of "fun" instruction for my more auditory learners, I think there are nice possibilities offered by podcasts.