My assignment this week for grad school was to create a podcast and upload to your blog. Sounded simple enough, right? WRONG. This assignment started out as a nightmare! I first had to find a microphone, which I ended up borrowing from my boyfriend, then I had to download Audacity. Never heard of this program and had no clue how to use it. So I take the laptop into school on Friday with my microphone ready to have my kids create a “Morning Annoucement”. Well, this was interesting and entertaining. I couldn’t  write a script for them because they can’t read (they are special needs kids) and I was trying to explain to them what we were going to do but all they wanted to do was “rock out” with the microphone. After several attempts, and I do mean several attempts we finally created a 3min announcement that makes a little bit of sense if you listen closely!
I ended up not using Audacity, instead I used Acid Pro instead which seemed to be much easier for me to use. The kids had a great time playing with the microphone and listening to themselves talking, singing, and laughing. They asked if we could do this every week and I just might do that, now that I know what I’m doing. Overall, I really liked this assignment and think podcasts can have a vareity of uses in the classroom!

Please click below to listen to our podcast…I promise you will enjoy it

http://aliciaj.podomatic.com/entry/2008-11-23T16_18_59-08_00