Thing 14

I really enjoy podcasts, especially the video podcasts. When I am preparing to teach a topic in AP Biology where I need some other ideas on how to aproach the topic with high school students, I will often go to iTunes U and download a video lecture on the topic. After watching the video lecture I often had a new method for teaching the material or I understand the material in a much better way and I can share it with my students. I go to iTunes U and either choose by topic or by university presenting the material.

I also subscribe to NPR's science friday, discovery videos, and science channel videos. I do have other interests so many things on NPR are of interest to me. It is easier for me to go through iTunes but here is a website which will take you to NPR and then you can search for topics which are of interest to you. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106876617

Before we traveled to Italy this summer I also downloaded some Rick Stevens podcasts and video podcasts about the places we were going and got aquainted with the sights we would be seeing. It was even more fun to view the podcasts after we had visited to reinforce what I had seen and the facts and figures that went along with the sights.

My students' AP Biology text has a wonderful accompanying website and one of the features is mp3 downloads of some of the more difficult topics. They can download these podcasts and then listen to them while they are exercising, going for a walk or working on an art project, etc.