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Benefits of Podcasting in the Classroom

This was a great video to watch because we are indeed teaching millenials.  For all of those out there who do not know what a millenial is, is a anyone who was born after 1980.  Teaching the children of today is nothing like it use to be!  We are dealing with children who are technologically literate.  These children are more comfortable and familiar with learning via computers/iPods/presentations etc., opposed to a blackboard.  Podcasting has many advantages to it.  Students can listen and replay any part of a lecture or instructions, they can share the information with their parents, they can interact with students outside the classroom and the list really goes on and on.  As a future educator I would most definitely use podcasting within my classroom religiously.  Podcasting also promotes creativity and innovations as well

100 Ways to Use Your iPod to learn and Study Better

iPods are not just for listening to music! You can literally use your iPod for more than a hundred different things.  They are great tools for students because students can listen to audiobooks which are simply books on audio.  They also have something called iPod in the classroom which is a collection of lesson plans for teachers who want to use their iPod for classroom work and I would suggest some of you to take a look at that since we are studying to be future educators. The last thing that I thought would be very useful for students is the English tutor Telecampus which is where you can download test preps for your iPod to study for the TOEFL, GRE, GMAT and other test as well. 

EPN(Education Podcast Network)

The Education Podcast Network is an attempt to bring together the wide range of podcast programming which can be helpful to educators that are looking for content to teach with and explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.