While reading the assigned readings, I was thinking about my school and how we could improve our newscast. Our technology specialist already uses a Moviemaker to record our newscast and converting it to a podcast shouldn't be that much more. It would allow all the students to view the newscast rather than a select few. Our portables do not have access to our closed circuit channels. Therefore, our Second graders do not get to see what they have to look forward to in Fourth Grade.
As I think about my response to a teacher who is requesting a podcast, I think of the reasons why it would be beneficial to students. First, it would allow the students who are absent the ability to learn what they missed for the day. Second, it would help the students who are nervous about speaking in front of the class the opportunity to work on their public speaking skills while not standing in front of their peers. I also would inquire as to how the teacher is planning to use the podcast. Knowing this information will help me to know the best way to help them. Depending on what the teacher is wanting to do will dictate what kind of additional technology we would need.
The largest concern I would have is obtaining the parents' permission for their students to be on the podcast. While many of our parents would not have a problem, there are a few that would be concerned with the accessibility. If we could guarantee a "safe" podcast posting, more of the parents would be on board. There is more research for me to do to ensure that the students involved remain safe even if the podcast is only viewed through the school via the Intranet rather than the Internet.
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Wow! I never thought of broadcasting a newscast through a podcast. I work at a high school, and we also do not have closed circuit TV in the trailers. Since we have this problem, I immediately dismissed the idea of creating the school news. Now I see that podcasting is a useful technology in education. I like the idea that students could access this at home via the internet if they were out that day. Also, it would be a good school/parent communication tool. Obtaining parents' permission is a big deal. Anytime you are broadcasting pictures and video of students over the web, it is something to be overly cautious about.
ReplyDeleteI work in an primary school and we do not even have closed circuit TV. We have students that do announcements in the mornings over the loud speaker. It would be neat if they could do a podcast the day before and then the whole school could preview it the next day as the morning news. I know that we have access to watch things from the internet on the TV so I am sure that we could figure out how to watch a podcast of the morning announcements. That would be really neat for the students. I am not a very tech savvy person so this would be something that I would have to study on, then try. The students would love this each morning. I do not very know much about podcast except what we did in class so all of this is really new.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of podcasts.
ReplyDeleteOur county has trouble with using any technology that requires streaming, especially my school. Any streaming we do slows our network down so much it is almost inoperable. When I read about using podcasting to do the news, I went to my IT person and questioned him. I asked if showing podcasts would slow our network down like streaming. He stated that it would slow it down some, it would not be to the extent of streaming. I could do my news show through podcasting. Teachers could create "videos" of lessons they are teaching and put them on their webpages for parents, students, and other teachers to view.
My only question is, if a teacher or school posts a podcast to their webpage what are the rules pertaining to students' faces and names being mentioned? Would this create problems with podcasts?
I imagine it would fall under the same guidelines that are set for photos and things of that nature. I know there are guidelines that are in place for our district that we have to obtain parent permission before anything like this is done. As long as the parents know what is involved and the district guidelines are followed, it should not be a problem. But that falls under some scrutiny as to the implications about how to handle it.
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