Podcasts in Education (4.20.12)

podomatic.com allows people to create their own podcasts. We discussed the use of these podcasts in the clasroom, mostly so that parents can stay involved. While I think these could be helpful, I do think that a parent's involvement is thair own responsibility. Parents that want to be involved will, podcasts or not, and parents who do not plan to get involved won't, podcasts or not. These tools are all just extras. I can see how it would be helpful in some situations, but I don't know that it is really a necessity for a teacher to create these.