Now THIS is what I'm talking about....

I felt a little pessimistic after my post last night, but the subject of podcasting today sure made me feel a lot better. I think it is wonderful that students can post their thoughts on the web without having to be fluent readers and writers. Although they might need modeling and practice so they create meaningful audio recordings, it is no doubt that their spoken grammar would be much better than what they could write.

I got to listen to an example of this here:



After seeing this example, I am so excited to get back into a classroom and try this with my future students. I think this is a great technology and it provides so many options for educators. Also, I think students would be incredibly motivated to practice the writing process and edit their parts of the readers theatre after hearing their voices back.

What do you think? am I getting a bit to excited? I just don't see any downfalls to this one :)