Assessing With Podcasts

After reading Shalena’s blog posting titled “How to Use Podcasts at Your School”, I am very much convinced that incorporating podcasts into my everyday teaching will successfully result in strengthening my students’ understanding of a range of topics.

Within her posting, Shalena mentions a number of benefits brought about by using podcasts in classrooms, such as the ease of creating them, the requirement of minimal equipment and their ability to “reach a wide audience.” I also am very fond of Shalena’s idea of using podcasts for assessing students so as to “give children a new and exciting way to be creative and express their ideas”. I strongly agree with Shalena on this creative approach to assessing students, as I believe that the way in which students are assessed should vary from the traditional methods and instead reflect the changing world around us.

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