How do Children Benefit from Making a Podcast?

When children make podcast, they get many advantages, for example: they get a potential audience of thousands for their work.  Literacy skills (writing scripts, setting up interviews etc), are strengthened also, which allows children to develop and practice their speaking and listening skills, teamwork strengthening, etc...

Teachers can also make their podcast (and students podcast) can be interactive, where the audience can be invited to send their comments, giving valuable feedback to the children about their work.

 The ideas on what to do for a podcast is endless: school news - a great way of telling children and parents what is going on at your school; student work - children love sharing their work; ask them to record their own stories, or write reports about an activity they've tried at school; interviews - with members of staff, children, members of the community, and visitors to school; Music - Please be aware that you will not be allowed to use commercial music in podcast for copyright reasons. However, some artists allow their music to be played in a podcast. You can find this "pod safe" music in special directories (e.g. music.podshow.com); etc...

Using Podcasting to enhance Social Learning

Pod Casting for Students



Pod casting facilitates instruction in many K-12 (and collegiate level) settings. Dlott (2007) demonstrated pod casting's efficacy in teaching geography, history and poetry writing. Pod casting allowed for the inclusion of music and sound effects in teaching descriptive language, writing styles and oral expression. Pod casting also facilitated students' efforts to test the sound of their voices in a non-threatening way, causing Dlott (2007) to consider it an appropriate tool to develop effective communicators. Dlott's efforts combined pod casting with other digital technology tied to the internet.