Podcast

Creating the podcast was kind of difficult. I am one of those people that really needs someone to walk with me step by step through something new. Therefore this assignment took me a lot longer than it probably should have. Mary Love and I went to the computer lab on Friday so that we could use Garageband since you seem to highly recommend the program. Once we finally figured it out, it wasn't that hard. We did run into some difficulty because we began to work on it in the classroom and then someone told us that they had to lock up so we went into the computer lab. The classroom had the 09 version and the lab had the 08 version. There were differences in the versions and Mary Love's wouldn't even work. I thought it was strange that the 09 version didn't have a cat sound, it actually only had 13 animal sounds, but the 08 version had about 90 animal sounds. I think the computer lab needs to make all the computers have the same updated version so that other students don't run into this problem. Now that I know how to make a podcast, I can see myself using it as a teacher. It's a good way to record books so that children can listen and follow along. I can also send them to parents so that they will have resources at home to use with their children. I liked the fact that I was able to make connections between two of my classes. In my language arts class, we all wrote our own nonfiction books. We then went through the process of illustrating them and binding them. I was able to then able to make the podcast to go with it. I originally tried to go online and find a cat sound effect since the 09 version didn't have one. I couldn't figure out how to do this. I would love it if you could show us in class again how to do this. I found the cat sounds online, but I couldn't figure out how to insert them into Garageband.