Beans In The Pod

 More and more I see teachers using blogging as the means of communicating classroom activities and instructions to parents and to the outside world. The questions I get asked the most is how can I use the blog to display student work. Well, many knew they can can post pictures of student work and video of student activity, but no one knew that audio, as in a podcast, can be posted to blogger as well.

Let me introduce you to Podbean.com© I've used this web2.0 tools for a few years now as a means to transfer podcast projects in the classroom into embeddable mp3 players that can be placed with ease on your blog post.

Every year... well at least the last two years the 5th grade team does a science camp where the students rotate to 5 different teachers to learn 4 different objectives. The fifth class, my class, culminated all the objectives into a project class to where student groups had to use GarageBand® to create a song that demonstrated mastery of a specific concept within any of the 4 objectives. The project was recorded as a podcast, turned into an mp3 and uploaded to Podbean.com in order to be posted within a blog. Like this:

Podcast Powered By Podbean

It's very easy to do! Students now can record themselves reading and you can post on your blog for grandma to hear. Students can interview Abraham Lincoln and post for a Social Studies project during President's Day. You can do anything with a podcast, now you can post so everyone can see... I mean hear.

The following link will take you to the Podbean user guide for instruction. Have Fun!
Podbean Help