Podcast and Vodcast
This week was so interested with some complicated issues about the new tools. I really enjoy using these tools and attracted to apply it in my teaching career. From the reading I learned that podcasting “refers to the idea of using an MP3 player, iPod, or even a microphone attached to a computer to record audio” (Johnson, 2o11, p.68). Also, to start using this tool there are difference programs to sing up by using your email account. In the class discussion, I learned that using these tools not including entertainments just, but also, in education, and communication with other people. Also, it is useful to include these tools in educational class, especially for second language students and disability students. I faced some issues to record my sound, so I waited until go back to my home and do it from there. I think that what anyone needs to record “quiet”.
In addition, in class we discuss the idea of how can we as teachers use these tools and I like my classmate suggestions such as sending a weekly lesson plan recorded to students, or record the vocabulary lesson or the weekly poems so students could prepare from the home it that. I also, like using vodcast tools with disability students to record to them a video about the class lesson. However, it is also useful with distance or home classes.
About using these techniques in education, in my country Saudi Arabia teachers used podcast to record all the year poems and handle, or send it to students during the first week of the school, so students could use it to enhance their abilities to present the poems in class. however, I would use it with blogs as teachers, so students can record their sound about class discussion or questions and answers.