Podcasting : report of an experience in music education

Abstract

In this paper we will present a pedagogic experience carried out in a 6th grade class, in the current 2008/2009 school year, in the Music Education classroom. For this purpose, a podcast was created (www.podomatic.com) and several activities were developed, in classroom context, taking advantage of the tool’s potential. Although the podcast was managed by the teacher, the published contents were mostly developed by the students, therefore becoming themselves producers of the information on the web, in a logic that exceeds the observation level and motivates the student to have an active role in the construction of the global society of the 21st century.