Podcasts/Videocasts

When I first began the Micro computing course at South Alabama, I had never heard of podcasts or videocasts. I was introduced to this form of technology when I was assigned a project where I had to listen and watch certain podcasting episodes. Then I had to write about them. And I first thought to myself, "WOW! Where have I been?" There were so many episodes to chose from that I was blown away. There were plenty of interesting educational episodes that educators have placed on the web. So as a future teacher, I found podcasting to be not only fun, because it sounded like a radio show on the Internet, but very informative. Ant the same with videocasts. To be able to hear and see what other teachers and their students are doing would make for good conversation with students in my own class. To talk about how my class is different or alike to another class half way around the world would be interesting. To be able to hear the pros and cons of certain educational web sites would be useful to me also as a teacher. So these sites would come in handy and I think my students would enjoy them as well.