07.27.08
Thing 18 – What Evoca Evoked in Me
For this K12 Learning task, I used evoca for the first time to create an audio recording of three ideas I have for integrating podcasting into classroom teaching and learning. Have a listen!
1. Ms. Edmison’s Weekly Podcast gave me the idea of using podcasting as a way to communicate news and upcoming events with parents at the end of each week. Ms. Edmison’s class uses its podcast as its weekly newsletter, and I love how that idea puts responsibility and creativity into the students’ hands. I wonder how much preparation Ms. Edmison has to do to get her podcast up and running each year.
2. We study early American exploration and colonization as part of our social studies curriculum, and I was thinking that it might be fun for my students to create podcasts from the the perspectives of different Spanish conquistadors and other European explorers. By taking on the role of various historical personalities, the students would be enhancing their knowledge of the content, sharing their ideas with others, and allowing me as the teacher to assess their understandings and dig deeper into their interpretations.
3. In a previous post, I commented on an idea I had for incorporating flickr into classroom teaching. My idea involved having students collect images of any misspellings they come across out in the world. Enhanced podcasts sharing several if not all the images they find through the year with commentary on the significance of the collections could make an interesting podcast…maybe a final podcast project?
I found evoca to be quick and easy to use. I had no trouble getting the html code needed to embed the recording into my blog, and I like the way the embedded file looks on the page. I really like how evoca provides the rss feed for the podcasts I create under my username. One thing I thought was really neat about evoca would be a handy tool for skype users. Skype users can record calls and have the recordings sent directly to evoca accounts! I can definitely see how this would be a useful tool for teachers like Ms. Edmison who create weekly podcasts with their students.
