Journal for 11/21/11

For last week's class, all we did was work on our podcast project pretty much the entire time. Working with garage band for this project was nice because it is not that complicated of a program to deal with. While the program was easy to work with, I will say that making a good podcast is rather time consuming between writing a script, recording the podcast, and editing it so that the everything flows smoothly for the listeners. It took up pretty much the whole class and we ended up doing more work outside of class afterwards to finish it up. When it comes to using a podcast for my future career in teaching, it is a great idea for kids to show off what they learned but I have to keep in mind that the students will need plenty of time in order to record one. This probably should not be an in-class assignment that the teacher expects them to finish in one day. The teacher should give them a couple of days or so to allow them to spend more time on bringing their podcast together.