How can podcasts be of benefit in the classroom situation(elementary school)?

Question

How can podcasting be used in the classroom?

describes the classroom benefits that you think this technology could provide. Be specific in your activities, give actual lesson ideas that you and other teachers can implement.

Answer 1

Podcasts are beneficial as grooup activities in which students must research and present a "documentary" or news report using video and audio. They can also podcast in a foreign language they are studying. I have seen podcasts where students in a sixth grae Latin class report on a gladiator event, or French students on the storming of the Bastille. They can report on a histoical event, recreate a favorite scene from a book, etc. It serves a writing fucntion because they must create a script, and they can do a story board first for the video component. So there is a collaborative, research, reading, writing, and producing the en product.