PodCasting would be a great way for older students to share books with younger students. Having an audience would inspire the older students to practice reading aloud, which would help them build fluency and read with expression. For the younger students, hearing the story read aloud as they attempt to read it themselves would provide a great deal of support in decoding words and learning new vocabulary.
Here's Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Other Favorite Bedtime Rhymes.
If a teacher knew she was going to have a substitute the next day, I think it would be useful to record podcasts giving some of the directions for the next day. That way she would be using the language the students are used to hearing and there would probably be less confusion than when the substitute has to read and interpret the written plans.
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yes - I think oral instructions are much easier to give (writing up a bunch of instructions is really hard); but maybe providing an outline or some notes would help too, as it is a little hard to go back i a podcast and find sometihng to listen to again for better understanding without an index or something.
the other thing I noticed with podcasting is that it is not very visual - how can we link a podcast to some visuals? I'd like to figure that out.
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