First Time for Everything

I am so excited I just finished my first podcast.  So, what prompted me to do a podcast?  Well, because our motto is “it is about curriculum, not the tool” Noel and I have a primary source document from 1894 that we want our students to be able to read and do some work with.  The text is high level and we already know that many of our kids will need some help with it, more than just the basic pre-reading skills and schema building activities that we will do.  Many kids need to be able to listen to the text being read by a fluent reader.  In the past we have offered as the teacher to take a group and read it aloud for whoever wants or need that.  Now that we are fortunate enough to have a set of ipod touches I went on a mission to see how I could use the tool to get to the curriculum.  At first I thought about using the voice recording tool on the ipod touches but then I remembered thinking about the world of podcasts.  So, I got on garage band, watched the tutorial, and before I knew it was I sitting in my bedroom, door closed to escape the noise of my two small children to read the text into computer.  Now students will have the option of listening to me reading in my best recorded books type of voice as they follow along with the text.