Podcasts

The two podcasts from last semester that I chose to listen to were "Watchers and Listeners-How do We Respond?" and "Lessons from Life: The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch." I listened for things that I could use to improve podcast for this semester but apparently I am not a very critical person because I thought they were done really well and if ours are as good as theirs, then we will be doing pretty well.

"Watchers and Listeners- How do we Respond?" This podcast was done by three students named John Hardman, Keri Ashworth, and Autumn Jordan along with their professor, John Strange. Their podcast was based on an article that Professor Strange had written. The group examined the theses that "students are now listener/watchers and not reader/writers. How accurate is that claim and what reactions should we have to it if it is correct? This podcasts can be listened to by clicking this link Watchers and Listeners. This is also a picture of students who participated in this particular podcast along with Professor Stange'>John Hardman, John Strange, Keri Ashworth, and Autumn Jordan" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh856XwiFnnZbbC0gzFLUmmc79M6NRjfJBuFdmnSemK1bEF7dx_Ya3e4_YNDPL4MNESg80-1lENKb8ls4BMtJpVbZ2qAtkoy2YaVbGs7UHU-Dy_jhyG1SQsiOBebAPM0vFZ4ei_Fxw3Lzw/s200/T0406.jpg" border=0>

Each of the students introduced themselves and their majors as well as their hopes and plans for their future which I liked because it helps listeners get to know the speakers a little bit. One thing that I caught in the podcasts was that the students asked Professor Strange to explain something in his podcasts that they didn't know and he couldn't remember what it was either, it was kind of funny but not a good thing The students did address every aspect of the article and the points> how do you get people who are in the process of learning to contribue instead of listening/watching? How do you get them to produce material? Some things I had never considered too much was how much now people are listening to books and watching movies instead of actually reading the books. Professor Strange pointed out that changes are happening rapidly with technology.

"Lessons from Life: The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch" was done by two students, Kelse Volz and Crystal Powell. They looked ast lessons for life that can be found in "The LAst Lecture of Randy Pausch." This podcast can be found at this link Randy Pausch. I really enjoyed this podcast also. These students shared what they had learned from Professor Pausch and they also shared about him which I thought very appropriate considering that he had recently passed away. Professor Pausch had very useful teaching technique that every teacher shoule keep on mind. This podcast was inspirational to me and I think would be to everyone. I would like to do a podcast like this one that wold really stick out in listeners minds the way that this one did mine. Great life lessons. Here is a picture of the students that completed this podcast.
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These podcasts have definitely gave me an idea of what is expected when completing our own. I think this will be interesting and I hope it will give me some ideas of how to create podcasts with my own students once I become a teacher.