Podcasts in Spanish....yikes!

So, this week we are thinking about podcasts and how we could use them in our classrooms. All I can think is "Yikes!!" This idea sounds like such a great idea but I have way too many questions about it (many of which are the same questions about wikis). I think that since I will be teaching secondary Spanish next year, perhaps I will be able to come up with some awesome application of wikis and podcasts for high schoolers. In elementary school, I only have 30 minutes with them; in high school I'll have 90! I am already thinking about having them create an online portfolio. I can come up with prompting questions or ideas and they will record their responses using Audacity. Then, they can post them on their wiki (or maybe we'll use blogs for that...the wiki could be a different class project). The nice thing is, theoretically, they could continue the same portfolio throughout their years in foreign language. They would certainly get to see how much they had learned throughout the years that way.

See? Now my gears are turning. That is really the problem with time. It can really destroy the best intentions of educators.