Podcast Subscribing

The first podcast I subscribed to was Wired Science by geek dad. This podcast illustrates and discusses simple science based projects. This particular blog covered creating a soda bottle rocket. It showed and explained in detail how to create the project yourself.
This would be a useful resource in the classroom on related science topics the class is learning about. The blog would be a great tool to use prior to the experiment or even creating the experiment along with the blog. This could also be used as a suggested blog for families to watch and perform together at home.
This blog was very appealing, easy to listen to, and I think students would be very interested in watching these science experiments.


The second podcast I subscribed to was Very Vocabulary: Learn English Vocabulary Words. This podcast was all verbal which I think would be more appropriate for an older student audience. As the speaker even states, it may take 8-10 times of working with the words given to remember them. The object of this podcast is to introduce intermediate vocabulary words. It last around 10 minutes, giving around 8 words. The podcasts are arranged by providing words in alphabetical order, for example the first podcast provides words beginning with A. The speaker states a word, spells it, gives a definition, and uses it in a sentence. He would include several words and then at the end would present the “nerd” word and the “slang” word of the podcast. The speaker at times got off track and spoke of personal topics or opinions in which would not be useful or related for learning. The overall idea of this podcast is great, the content needs to be focused more strictly to just providing the word, definition, and example sentence leaving out any personal thoughts. I can see this podcast being used for older students who are looking for a variety of words to use when writing, or even students preparing for a spelling contest.