Blog Assignment # 5

It is always exciting and motivating to see what teachers are doing to inspire learning in their classroom. The case is the same for the blog posts about podcasting on the Langwitches Blog. Its amazing how eager children are to learn new things. In the post entitled Podcasting with First Grade, you see children wanting to learn. They took interest in the script making, they even wanted to assist in the editing process. These children as young as 6 years wanted to hear themselves on a podcast as well as share their experience with people around the world. They played roles of interviewers, as well as important characters in the book. In the post 1st Graders Create Their Own Read Along Audio-book, you see children learning to read with the help of their own voices. They were able to record their voices, with the help of Garageband, into a audio-book version of "Dinosaurs Before Dark", they were then able to read along with the audio-book. She talks about in her post that she enjoyed watching them read along. I imagine this to be rewarding as a teacher to see children motivated to learn. I also read Listening-Comprehension-Podcasting. This post was about 2nd grade language class learning how to arrange and edit a podcast. What was most interesting to me about this post is that the children were learning to speak Hebrew as well as do the podcast. It was exciting to read about how the reading were taken out of order and the children were able to rearrange the order correctly. I feel like this is is very good way for teachers to not only teach their students but to inspire learning as well. I look forward to one day be able to use podcasting for my future students.