Podcast

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**Definition of Podcast** Podcast is a mp3 or video file that can be downloaded and played on a computer or portable media device.

**Criteria for Podcast** It is one of many Web 2.0 tools that can be used in the classroom. For an audio and video to be a podcast two criteria must be met: first, the file has to be online and meaning it is stored on a publicly addressable server and second, your file needs to be available as part of a subscription which could very Book well be free.

**Podcast in the Classroom** In education, teacher can view podcasts in the classroom related to topics that they are teaching, record class lessons on podcast so students can view at anytime in any location, parents can be kept up to date on what is happening in the classroom or can let students create podcast as an individual or group assignment. Let us look at the many different ways in which podcast can be used in the classroom.


 * //Book Talk//** is a brief overview of a book designed to raise interest of potential readers, [].

//**Literature Circle**// similar to a book club allows student to interact with literature and each other, [].

//**Process Drama**// has different options such as writing a role, Reader Theater and Role Playing in which can be recorded as a project, [].

//**Meet the Author**// is a way in which the teacher let the students share the author’s viewpoints offering many ways to supplement students’ experience, [].

Students can record their critiques as an individual or as a group. Students can study a particular period in history, write and record journals from the perspective of a person living in that time, [].

By using an audio recorder, students can create oral history stories of Americans in the 20th century, [].

These are many different ways in which podcasting can be used as a tool in various disciplines in the classroom.