How I could use Podcast in my classroom

I enjoyed this Absolutely Intercultural podcast a lot. Now, I am a international student and I am interested in culture a lot. I read and watched several episodes from here, and selected the episode of absolutely intercultural 142.

from Absolutely Intercultural 142

While learning abroad using different language and in the different environment, I have thought that language learning is closely related with culture of the language. I think without understanding the culture of the language, we cannot fully use or understand the language. This episode gave a lot of information related with culture and language. I like the information about the website of ‘Internations’ which expatriates community for people living and working abroad as well as all ‘global minds’.

How I could use Podcast in the classroom

I will let my students read this episode first and then share their thoughts or reflections about this episode. I think many students can get a glimpse of importance of cultural understanding while sharing this episode. After this discussion about cultural differences or importance, I will give students some assignments as a group to search the cultural differences between Asian countries and English-speaking countries. With these results, they can podcast their findings like this episode. Their podcast could include their own experiences, some paper articles, or broadcasting etc. I think I can use this podcast site as a source of developing intercultural knowledge of my students, whenever I find good ones from here.

How I could use digital story tool for teaching.

Digital story videos: Four Seasons


This is about "Four Seasons".
It could be very easy topic or somewhat  boring one, however, once we start to talking about this easy topic, we can find that there is countless story we could make.
For example, students can learn basic English words about seasons, and they can talk about their favorite seasons and the resson. Students also discuss the main event of each season.

Through dicussing this topic,
1. We are able to know the words about four seasons in English.
2. We are able to correctly use verb tense by talking about four seasons.
3. We are able to talk about our favorate episode about four seasons.

Likewise, we can discuss some certain topic using these digital tools which are able to show visual images.
I will use this kind of digital tools to show some related images to students and it makes students to understand some topic easily.
I can use this tool to give some native speaking using some visual images.

Finally, I will show students these story clips and make students four groups. Each group will have each season, and they will discuss the season assigned. After discussing each season, they will report their discussion with this kind of story board.
This will be able to enhence students' understanding and will be able to give more interest of the topic.