What is the big deal about Podcasting like "Chinesepod "
Saturday, 20. May 2006, 15:51:04
Chinesepod is popular now ! if you don't know Chinesepod ,you are out ! well I am not crazy about Chinesepod .
As far as teaching ideas are concerned there is nothing new . Podcast is just an updated version of studioclassroom teaching , podcasting, version of amateur radio, and of course home video has been around for at least 30 years. However, Podcat ieself doesnot make any change to teaching Chinese or TCSOL ,
But the point is
odcast has been the vast increase in usability of such technologyy and an equally impresive decrease in cost. The result being that ideas that were developed only for the most privileged parts of the developed world’s educational systems can be used in a much broader context as the cost and ease of access to these tools has changed.
But Techonogly should not become the dread of teachers , I have been observed some of teachers here teaching classes by using Powerpoint ,or other techie things ,actually I could only feel that they were tryingt to do all kinds of things ,but the worst thing is they forgot ,as a teacher you are to pay more attention on learning of your students coz Learning usually take place when you really teach students ,but not when you are trying to figure out how to use Podcast ,it is not the technogly itself which will make a differecne but it is all about teaching .
For teaching Chinese ,it is advisble to use Blog or Podcast to help you ,but I would rather choose the traditional way , actually I want to teach at a Multimedia classroom ,but I at last find out that what I need is what I just need ,which means that as a teacher we should try to use what we have or what we need ,don't try to find out what Geeky thing out there ,I am against that EFL or TCSOL teacher who are trying to use Blog or Podcast but not in a down-to-earth way .
I remember that when I was at college ,I had a teacher called Joe ,he was only having his own Laptop ,and no internet access in classroom ,the only thing he could use is Chalk and board ,but he was doing such a good job ,the only techie things he was trying to use is Movies and he use Projector in our reading classes in order to play a movie forus ,Technology for him was like a Toy ,we should play with Toy ,but not becoming a slave of that .
anway I will try to post later about how my teacher teach us reading in a big typical Chinese classroom it will be like A case study .
As far as teaching ideas are concerned there is nothing new . Podcast is just an updated version of studioclassroom teaching , podcasting, version of amateur radio, and of course home video has been around for at least 30 years. However, Podcat ieself doesnot make any change to teaching Chinese or TCSOL ,
But the point is
odcast has been the vast increase in usability of such technologyy and an equally impresive decrease in cost. The result being that ideas that were developed only for the most privileged parts of the developed world’s educational systems can be used in a much broader context as the cost and ease of access to these tools has changed.But Techonogly should not become the dread of teachers , I have been observed some of teachers here teaching classes by using Powerpoint ,or other techie things ,actually I could only feel that they were tryingt to do all kinds of things ,but the worst thing is they forgot ,as a teacher you are to pay more attention on learning of your students coz Learning usually take place when you really teach students ,but not when you are trying to figure out how to use Podcast ,it is not the technogly itself which will make a differecne but it is all about teaching .
For teaching Chinese ,it is advisble to use Blog or Podcast to help you ,but I would rather choose the traditional way , actually I want to teach at a Multimedia classroom ,but I at last find out that what I need is what I just need ,which means that as a teacher we should try to use what we have or what we need ,don't try to find out what Geeky thing out there ,I am against that EFL or TCSOL teacher who are trying to use Blog or Podcast but not in a down-to-earth way .
I remember that when I was at college ,I had a teacher called Joe ,he was only having his own Laptop ,and no internet access in classroom ,the only thing he could use is Chalk and board ,but he was doing such a good job ,the only techie things he was trying to use is Movies and he use Projector in our reading classes in order to play a movie forus ,Technology for him was like a Toy ,we should play with Toy ,but not becoming a slave of that .
anway I will try to post later about how my teacher teach us reading in a big typical Chinese classroom it will be like A case study .
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