Creating a Podcast

A podcast is an essential teaching tool because it is a new, original and dynamic to make a lesson interesting. You can record your own voice or conduct interviews with resource persons etc. and then group them all together to make a complete lesson. One can also incorporate music and other interesting sounds to make the lesson unique, interesting and attractive for the students. A podcast pertaining to the issue of student teachers being overloaded with assignments was produced. Now at the latter part of the first semester, student teachers have been giving most of their graded assignments at the same time; this has caused stress and frustration for both student teachers and lecturers, hence the reason for producing the podcast. The podcast prepared had interviews with both student teachers and lecturers giving their opinion on the overload of assignments and coming up with recommendation to ease the burden. A podcast can be used as a teaching tool if a teacher is absent or wants to use a different teaching method and as mentioned earlier it can be used as tool to bring across information from interviews with resource persons etc. This piece will be used as an informative and recommendation tool to find solutions in minimizing the workload being presently experienced by the student teachers. As a result of the podcast piece being a group work assignment it posed a challenge in regards to timing for us to conduct our interviews; however, we all took personal time to make sure that our presentation (podcast) was successful. Due to lack of timing the interviews were a little bit sketchy but it all worked out. If we had more time, the audio quality for the interviews could’ve been a little better to enhance the overall audio for the podcast.