Learning with podcasts (listen)
Well, as some of you have realized, I’ve recently gotten into podcasting. Working with multimedia (audio and video) is interesting for me, and I think there are many uses for education. I enjoy doing the English learning podcasts and feel like I make some connection with people in far away places. I know there are so many of you out there learning English and I hope that the podcast is a help in some small way.
I’m very intestested to know your ideas about the use of podcasting in language education. Are you learning and improving your English by listening to the “English Teacher John Show” and other English learning podcasts?
I think that it’s also important to get learners into the ‘creative’ side of the podcasts and mp3 files. That means that the STUDENT creates podcasts, evaluates other students’ podcasts and uses English in many ways to create audio content. How does that sound? Do you have some comments or ideas about using mp3 audio files and podcasting in language learning?
November 12th, 2005 at 5:11 pm
Hi!
Your idea seems wonderful! I am a newcomer to this site & I listened to audio lesson 1, 2 & 3.They are really helpful. Your pronunciations are so clean that they are good to understand for a English learner like me. (Poor English speaker & writer)
I don’t know the meaning of the word podcast. What does it mean?
Are you going to charge us for listening to these lessons some time later when your site becomes a popular one? Please don’t do this because I will be unable to use it then because now I am not earning money on my own.
Waiting for your reply.