Podiobooks as teaching tools

My wife is a teacher of language arts, and I’ve had many conversations with educators who like the idea behind Podiobooks.com. Seems the infection is spreading around the world, according to an ESL teacher from Greece:

I’m using The Pocket and the Pendant audio book by Mark Archer as a teaching tool.I give the students a cd with the whole book in mp3 form and ask them to listen to a chapter each week and write a summary. It’s great listening practice and a great alternative to the boring listening practice that they do in their course books.





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3 Responses to “Podiobooks as teaching tools”

  1. petaringout Says:
    January 20th, 2006 at 9:52 am

    How exciting I’ve only just caught on to podcasting.What level ss do you use it with.Have you devised any classroom activities based on the homework?

  2. Craig Says:
    February 4th, 2006 at 12:01 pm

    In answer to Petaringout I use the same kind of activities with an audio book that you can use with any piece of literature. For example;

    Chapter summaries
    Character summaries
    Reviews
    What do you think will happen next ?
    What would you do if you were in X’s place ?
    Who would you choose to play the characters in a film version ?

    I must add that I teach English to foreigners and till now I’ve been doing this with private lessons only. Check out Earthcore by Scott Sigler as well.

  3. Stijn Hommes Says:
    February 10th, 2006 at 5:35 am

    Who is this Archer guy?
    Are you sure they read the same book? :)

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