I want to use iTunes and Everyzing as English materials in different ways. About the number of podcasts, iTunes is more vaious than Everyzing. We can subscribe it. I want to use it for students to study at home as an assignment. I will ask them several questions or have them write their opinions on my blog. It is good listening practice for students because they have to listen to it several times. Furthermore, we can subscribe it. Gradually,students will be used to the vocabularies because of the same theme. They can increase vocabularies naturally.
As for Everyzing, I want to use it in a class. I can use this site to integrate listening and reading. The advantage of this site is that all podcasts have scripts. It will be helpful for students to confirm which word they can't recognize. If the podcast is difficult for students to listen to, first students learn and read the script or vocabularies. After understanding the content, students can listen to it.
Everyzing also has various podcasts from news to food. Teachers can know which topic is new now and choose it. For example, now presidential election has just finished. Students are familiar with several terms of policitcs. It is good timing to introduce political news relating to election.
Authentic and new material can make students be motivated to learn English.
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Keiko,
You have posted some very good ideas for podcasts from these sites, but for this mod you should choose one episode from one of the sites and explain how you would use that specific episode for your classes. Please let me know when you have reposted.
Dr. Burgos
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