Podcasting

This weeks reflection is about podcasting. It will be short because I am gong to integrate podcasting into my Materials Development #2 assignment and don't want to talk too much about it. There are a few things that i want to say though. Before this last week I had no idea just how popular and how many podcasts there actually are out there. I have used Itunes for more than six years and up until now I have never looked at Podcast section of the Itunes store, even though I knew they were there. Since this  class I have now found out that Itunes has the largest selection of podcasts anywhere out there and that there are multitudes of topics that podcasts cover. Another trick I learned is that if you change the country of origin of your Itunes account you can get all the podcasts in the language from that country. I now listen to a few Spanish podcasts to keep up on my Spanish listening skills as well as a few in English that are just interesting. I believe that using podcasts in class can be beneficial and motivating because students can listen to both podcasts that are there to help them learn English as well as podcasts originally for native English speakers that students are interested in. They can be fun, interesting, and exciting for students.