Podcast

I actually listen to podcasts on my ipod and iphone all of the time. Although, not for the purpose of doing better in school. Podcast are interesting to me so many people do them over the every imaginable subject and sometimes they are beneficial and sometimes they are not. I think it is very cool that a lecture can be turned into a podcast so the students can use that resource instead of a book or filling out mindless pages of homework covering the same topic.
In all honesty, podcasting and the other web applications seem to be the exact same to me. Beneficial if done right but more time consuming than just standing in front of the class teaching. The only thing I even use my computer for is the internet, meaning, facebook and youtube, and for homework stuff. I understand that to a degree there should be an integration of technology into the classroom and the students should have other resources beside just the teacher. I could see myself using maybe one or two of the things I have learned in this class. If I were going to be a General Education teacher this class would be a lot more helpful.
I own an iPod, I have some Podcasts on it and I listen to them every once in a while. However, I don't feel like podcast are something practical when it comes to younger grades and Special Education services. Maybe in middle and high school this would be a brilliant idea that everyone loves but it seems to just be rather unhelpful in my situation, cool none the less, but unhelpful.