Saturday, October 6, 2012

Podcast


For my podcast, I decided to use the same topic I chose for the PowerPoint presentation.  I thought I could provide a brief overview about conducting a “picture walk” for an audience of early childhood teachers and school media specialists who can use this tool in their literacy instruction.  I attempted to include a short video demonstration in my PowerPoint presentation; however I am not sure if others were able to view it.  I was thinking that I could incorporate the demonstration into the podcast.  I realize that using video demonstration would allow for the audience to view the book as the reader and child “walk” through it, and that a podcast only allows for the audience to listen to the audio.  However, by providing the name and author of the book being used, the audience may be able to get the book and have it in front of them to follow along while listening to the podcast.  By listening to the audio, the audience is able to hear some examples leading questions that can be used to elicit responses from students, as well as the kinds of response young readers are likely to provide when doing a “picture walk.”  While the introduction to this podcast is relatively brief, I felt that providing a demonstration of a picture walk would be most beneficial for this podcast, which made it significantly longer than 3 minutes.

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