Podcasts

I subscribed to two educational podcasts, Exploratorium and No Teacher Left Behind.  I also subscribed to the CNN podcast.  I really enjoy the video podcasts, since I am a visual learner.  I was not a huge fan of the audio podcasts.  I find myself getting distracted with nothing to look at, and I would flip over to my e-mail or something for work so that I could multi-task.  The problem was I would soon realize that I had missed what they were saying on the Podcast.  I think that illustrates a problem that I would face if I had students using Podcasts in the classroom. It would certainly be something that I would need to plan for.

Exploratorium had some good math/science lessons.  I am currently teaching scale & proportion.  One of the lessons I liked used Barbie as a real life example of scale/proportion. I would definitely use this lesson in my classroom.  No Teacher Left Behind focuses on new technologies and their application within the classroom.  I have already discussed how I lag behind in the area of technology.  I think this podcast will be a good resource for me when I no longer am taking classes which introduce me to new ideas.