Podcast

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Goldman to lend $25 million for charter schools

I would say from an effort standpoint that Jim and I put in a lot of time and effort into our podcast.  We read our article through mulitple times and looked up extra information to back-up or discussion and to help define things that the listener may not know (defined charter schools).  We put in a lot of time writing our script and practiced it many times before we even thought of recording it.  Also, we tried some different music and sound effects for our podcast before we finally agreed on a final copy and structure.  We put in a lot of time and were pleased with our finished product.  Making  this podcast was a good experience on how to work together with a new tool and how to communicate what we needed help with.  I would like to create more of these someday for a classroom because once we got going, it wasn't too hard and it will be easy excessable for students and parents.  The podcast is an important tool and you can use it to cover many things such as keeping parents in the loop of whats going on in the classroom or to even post extra information or lecture notes to students to listen to at home for extra help.  Like I said above, this project was tough at times but once we got the ball rolling, it was really simple.