Listening and speaking are two of the most important assets in education. Students, teachers and parents need to listen to each other. On the other hand, communication consists in a 2 way traffic. In this sense speaking becomes important too.
Today with this explosion of electronic sources one finds that podcasts could be a wonderful way in order to promote better teaching, understanding and communicating with all the partners involved!
As podcasts involve the audio part, it becomes easier for busy people to listen to as they can perform other tasks whilst listening to the podcast.
It could help busy teachers to give instructions to students in order to listen to it at home or elsewhere. On the other hand, students themselves can produce wonderful podcasts to show what they have learned or else to work together in a project and explain the part played by each one of them! There could be many other uses for, in education. If one is creative, one can find numerous reasons to use a podcast in class.
Today we are suggesting a podcast which is free, open source and available for Mac, Windows and Linux. It is Cpod. One can download it from here. There is no documentation available online but it’s very simple to install and use. The cpod was mentioned in this article.
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