Podcasting

The following artifact is a podcast I created in which I discuss my views on language, language learning and language teaching. I used //Audacity//, an audio editor that can be downloaded for free, to sync two audio files: a song by the jazz artist, Madeleine Peyroux, and a self-recording in which I outline my teaching philosophy. I believe the artifact nicely demonstrates my ability to create clear audio recordings joined with appropriate background music.

In the future, I hope to use podcasts as a way to continue my students' language learning experience outside the classroom. Not only can students download individual podcasts for free on their mp3 player or another assistive device, but they then have the opportunity to listen to the podcast as many times as they desire as well as at a time and place they find convenient. In addition to recording lectures as well as teacher and student presentations, I plan to make audio recordings of short stories and written materials covered in class that the students may use outside of class to further their acquisition of the target language.

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