Thing 20: Podcasts

Most of my students enjoy listening to and finding podcasts and videocasts to help with our math lessons. It is good to let them look at a few and see which one they can relate to and understand best. This is often different from one student to another. I have found several good casts on youtube, teachertube and math24/7.

I think most of my students would love to hear themselve online. This would be a great activity for ice breakers at the beginning of the year. Each student could interview another and even upload their picture on yudio. It was easy using my cell phone! We could also make casts on study skills and mathcasts for test review.

I have just scratched the surface of what is out there in the podcast world. I think I need some more time to really explore this technology.