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Project based learning and technology for the classroom is ever changing and growing. Podcasting is a example of an emerging technology, a way to record video or audio and allow it to be accessible over the Internet. A podcast's content can be anything conveyed by an audio or video file: a recorded lecture, a foreign language lesson, a demonstration of biology principles. Instructors can easily create a podcast of daily assignments and lectures from class, and publish it for all of their students. Students can likewise create and publish content and deliver it to their teachers or to other students.

This new type of technology could connect classrooms from Texas to Taiwan. This form of project based learning will allow students to learn about the material and to design a Podcasts at the same time. The steps are as follows:

1. Research the project
2. Design the project
3. Post the project

These steps allow the students to learn hands on in the classroom and share their learning through a new form of technology.

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