When in Romania I'm continuing to learn new things. Over the past five weeks I have been periodically tuning into an online course that I decided to join. My program manager at Peace Corps found out about it somewhere and sent out a mass email to all PCRo volunteers about it. I happened to be the only one of us that decided to sign up and it ended up being a pretty good decision.
The course was entitled "Podcasting for the ESL-EFL classroom" and though our moderators were based in Venezuela, participants tuned in from all over the world. The course covered the basics of podcasting from the free audio-editing software to the publishing online. The course also covered useful ways to use the podcasting in an ESL-EFL classroom. Participants had to draw up a project outline that they can use in a classroom setting. That is, a hooked up classroom setting with computers, headphones, internet and freedom to download the necessary software. Finally the participants had to present all of there work on a blog that they themselves designed with the guidance of the moderators.
Below is a list of the tools we used and learned about:
yahoogroups
WIZIQ
Glogster
Podbean
Podomatic
Audacity
Blogger
Free Music Archive
Audioboo
Vocaroo
Chirbit
Pixlr
VoiceThread
Virtual Presents
and many more mentioned in the required readings.
Many of these tools offer great ways to integrate technology into the classroom.
My final product is a blog named AndyCasting which includes all of the podcasts that I recorded for the session as well as the project that I came up with. Click here to check it out.
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