Reflection 6

I created a podcast recapping a meeting I held this week at one of our high school campuses.  Our department meets with our teachers at each of our high schools (we have eight campuses) at least once a month. We are limited to 20 minutes in the morning, yep, only 20 minutes, from 7:30 a.m. to 7:50 a.m., so we have to keep our agendas short (which our teachers prefer), or talk fast (and lose everyone from the get-go).  

Podcasting our meetings is a great idea, which I continue to do.  It lets me discuss items I don’t have time for during the regular meeting.  However, on the down side, just like not every one of our teachers attends our meetings for this reason or that, not all of our teachers listen to the podcasts.  :(

I think keeping the podcasts short in length helps capture learning, especially in showing steps on how to perform functions, such as in math.  I know I really enjoy the podcasts that contain embedded videos that help me learn technology. No podcast is over 10 minutes long.

I use Audacity to record my podcasts and podbean.com to host them. Both are user-friendly and very simple to use.

Podcast of High CTE Dept. Meeting on Feb. 24th