Example Uses

• Quick reminders to your students about upcoming assignment due dates or exams: You know how it is. One day you're driving home from work and you think to yourself, "I forgot to send out that email reminder!"  No worries: Simply call up GCast from your phone and record the reminder. 
• Highlights of key learning concepts: You're working on the week's unit and you realize that this is the unit that always stumps the students. So, call in to GCast and record your mini-lecture highlighting key points that the students typically miss.
• General feedback to the group: Each week, you could record a little message about how the group did as a whole in the previous week's lessons. For example, "Great job last week!  I saw a lot of great discussion posts full of some wonderful critical thinking...."
• Student-created podcasts: Periodically have the students create podcasts summarizing their learning or reflecting on a particular concept, etc.

Benefits

• easy to do - no special hardware or software needed
• appealing - multiple learning styles addressed
• builds community - voice helps us connect in ways that text can't
• immediacy - takes just a few minutes to create and students get them immediately

Tutorials

CGast Introduction

GCast = Easy Podcasting