Aaron Campbell has some pretty interesting ideas for implementing some of these tools in his classrooms. He’s an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher who’s doing some great thinking about how to make all of this work. With Podcasting, for instance:
I just listened to Dave Winer’s Nov. 1st podcast this morning as he rambled on about this and that and I realized that it would valuable to produce a short 10-15 min weekly broadcast designed specifically for my students; one in which I could speak naturally about extensions on the various themes and topics covered in class while introducing relevant phrases and recycling vocabulary, not to mention current events, music, and movies. Not only could I present a link to the Mp3 file on the web, but I could also email it to their cell phones if they so wished. Now, if I only had an iPod…
(Btw, if you want a pretty decent rundown of Podcasting and some ideas for using it, see this post at Contentious.)
Aaron’s got ideas for flickr and wikis that are worth checking out as well.
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