Podcasting in the classroom

Wesley Fryer (via Stephen's Web via Miguel Guhlin who speaks of the urgency in corporating technology in the classroom) has an excellent introductory article on integrating podcasts into the classroom. He concludes,

We need to get serious about educating today’s digital natives for the digital knowledge landscape of the twenty-first century. In many ways, the traditional, “transmission-based” educational model of the past is insufficient for the needs of today’s learners and employers. Classroom podcasts can provide engaging opportunities for students to develop desirable skills as digital storytellers and cutting-edge communicators. The price is right, and the benefits are plentiful. Isn’t it time you and your students started a classroom podcast?

For language learning, podcasts are a good tool for students to practice and revise a presentation.

Life cache

From Will Richardson (via Jeff Davis), I learned a new phrase had been coined: Life cache. Life caching apparently means to tell stories of one's life, which has been made easy by electronic story-telling tools, such as Nokia's Lifeblog (to be used with its cell phones), which and HP's Storycast, a digital storytelling with photos and narration. See many more at trendwatching.com. A generation of storytellers is being born.

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