Teaching New Media

Implementing podcasts into english learning seems more easy in comparison to other new media we experienced in the course of our session. In consideration to the fact that it is difficult to find an appropriate podcast, because many criteria, like age-appropriateness ,content-related fit, a limited number of vocabulary or an appropriate speech rate, have to be satisfied, it might be recommendable to look for other audio data. Hitherto, the creativity of the teacher comes into play, so that we generate audio data on our own, using technology that is available today. The difficulty of finding appropriate podcasts on the internet was demonstrated by the group who prepared the teaching session. They absorbed podcasts about english sayings, which is pretty unlikely to be implemented into the classroom as a topic for one session.