Week Four

I haven't quite finished my podcast for this week, but, with what I have done so far,I think the podcast gets the "thumbs up" for this week. After checking out the choices you gave us, for my purposes, I like Yodio the best. I like the ability to add pictures to my podcast. Making an account was easy, as well as downloading the pictures. The only drawback I can see, so far, is that you are only allowed 15 pictures for the free account. But, maybe for children, 15 is more than enough. At the point I am at, the next step is to make the toll free call to make the recording. Then I put the two together. Once I do this I'll be able to say for sure how much I like it. But for now, things are looking pretty good.

The thought I have for the use of Yodio in the library is a kind of "what I did this summer" type of project. I would like to have the children use pictures of something they did over the summer, and then write a short story to go with the pictures. They would only be able to use 15 pictures or less, so that would keep it from becoming too big of a project.

Another little twist on the summer story project, would be to try to put together a little radio show of what the students did on their summer vacation. This could be done as a podcast, where one child would be chosen to be the interviewer, and he/she could interview the other students. Or after one student is the guest speaker, he would then become the next interviewer for the next speaker. It would be fun to be able to post something like this on the library web site, or blog, or wiki, whichever I end up with. Maybe other children would have fun posting what they did too.