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• Spanish Lesson
  
  This podcast is teaching Spanish. It goes over phrases, words and numbers. Since World Language is part of the Maine Learning Results, this podcast could be a good tool in the classroom. This can help struggling students and help those that may have missed a day. It can also be good review. I could also use it to introduce a Spanish lesson. Another use is to give the material to students who were out in an easily accessible fashion.Podcasts are useful tools. They can be used for the same reasons that I gave for using the above podcast. They are also useful to help those that are auditory learners or who have hard times seeing. I can record my lesson in a podcast before I teach it to the class. Then as I am addressing the class the student with the visual impairment could listen to the podcast on the computer with a set of headphones. This will help to get rid of background noise and allow the student to focus on the podcast. They would get the same information, but I would describe on the podcast what I would be writing on the board for the other students.
  
  I think podcasts can be useful in a classroom. They can help the teacher and the students. When going over reading fluency, students can make a podcast of their reading and the teacher can listen to the podcast. The teacher can listen to the podcast and then analysis the students reading. Podcasts can be listened to more than once so the teacher can pick up all the miscues. Podcasts can also be used as another form of teaching. I think that podcasts are an interesting for teaching. They take some time to put together, but they are useful. I would not use them for every lesson, but I might use them for some lessons. I might use them as extra help methods. I don’t think they can replace a live teacher.
  
  Podcasts can be used to support literacy instruction. Students can use them for think aloud. Laura Robb uses think aloud to tell her students how she uses certain strategies to help her reading. It would be hard to make sure students are using their literary strategies when most of these are done silently. A teacher could have the students make a podcast, where they read a section of a book and then tell what strategies they are using when they read. For example, if a student is struggling with the meaning of a word he could say how he used context clues to figure out the meaning of the word. The teachers could then analysis these podcasts and determine who is on par and who needs more help. This is more beneficial for the students. If a teacher just lets the students read the teacher cannot tell if they are applying the rules. Even if she asks the students to explain the rules they may only do so at that one time. Podcasting makes it so they would have to be doing it continually throughout the whole period. I also can help the teacher to assess the students better, because she can listen to it more than once.
  
  5 Ways to use podcast in the practicum classroom:
  
  1. Reinforce a lesson
  2. teach a lesson
  3. have students make for activity with a lesson
  4. use if a student is out so they can get caught up on the work
  5. Model for an activity