The secret of learning a foreign language is practice. That is exactly what you can do with a podcast. I can record my own voice or I can assign a podcast from iTunes. Johnny Spanish is pretty good. Most of our students have iPods, iPods have microphones. Foreign language teachers can assign a podcast and follow up questions that must be answered in the target language. This allows the student to practice the language outside of the classroom. ¡Que maravilloso! Y después un grado para la tarea transmitid oralmente.
Kids love to see themselves on the big screen. As I've stated before I'm not comfortable showing students faces. That said I've used many youtube videos which were projects for Spanish class.
The students really enjoy them and relate to the students on the screen. Once again, great for high school, no so for grades 5 and 6.
In the case of screencasting I did watch John Udell's screencasting. It actually cleared wikis up for me. But I was in over my head when it came to live streaming.
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