Imagine a world of no make-up work interruptions by students who have missed the day before or even the week before. Imagine being able to teach your students who have been placed on homebound just as much information as the in-class students are receiving. Imagine allowing language learning students to practice from home or receive listening and speaking assignments from the internet. Welcome to podcasts.
For my classes next year I want to spend 30 minutes (more or less) dictating and instructing on information that was taught in class each day for those students who missed or may have just missed part of the class because of a pull out, a discipline problem or an attention problem. Eventually, I might be able to have the students in the class do it, maybe as an end of the period "wrap-up" activity. Or have my teacher aids do it ?? Who knows, the options are limitless.
I want to also have a couple parent nights during the first two weeks of school to explain this process and how to help their students receive the information from home. It will also give me a good time to introduce our class blog, and a give me a chance to meet a lot of the parents.
I also want to use the itunes free podcasts to allow my students to hear authentic native Spanish speakers. Forget about tapes and cd, here comes podcasts.
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I had not thought about using podcasts to listen to authentic Spanish speakers! What a good idea! I think that parents would be interested to hear the podcasts from your class as well so that they can find out what their child is studying in class and they might be able to help them with their homework if they can use your podcast to brush up on some Spanish!
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