Module 5 - Podcasting

In this module I found the use of podcasting to be a valuable teaching strategy in developing students skills in listening, extracting and recalling critical information on a topic or subject to develop their deeper understanding.  Students in the 21st Century are frequently interacting with this level of technology through visiting YouTube and listening to iPods. So with this in mind by employing Podcasts as a strategy to teach a topic is in effect meeting this demand students require in learning, and importantly making the experience fun and interactive.  In a recent workshop I attended for LNS a teacher shared a Podcast she had created for her year 8 students investigating the Causes and Effects of healthy eating.  The students listened to it as many times as they wished, whilst viewing images that related to the topic and worked on an accompanying worksheet to find the relevant information for each idea or statement discussed in the podcast.  This had a dual effect as it was engaging the students visually and audibly, encouraging the students to retain new information about the topic whilst developing cause and effect language.  I am interested in using this with my Entertainment students as a learning task where they will create a podcast on the causes and effects of a OHS issue relevant to the Entertainment Industry.