An idea in DC

Recently, I went on a class trip to the Baltimore/DC area with 100 seniors. Both myself and the studens had a great time on the trip. We experienced a lot of fun and interesting places both as a group and individually. We stayed in Baltimore near the inner harbor but we traveled to DC to spend the day. 

On this day we let the senior roam the National Mall. I admit, I was a tad skeptical of this plan set forth by the tour guide but went with it anyways. Students were required to check in with their chaperone every so often through texting. Now, DC more so than Baltimore is full of awesome museums and monuments. As I roam about DC with my fellow chaperones, an idea occurred to me. 

Since I cannot be at the various monuments and museums throughout the National Mall giving a guided tour to these 100 seniors ( nor do I think they would want to hear my voice yammering on and on). Instead, my idea would be to creat a podcast of the various museums and monuments. The creation of a podcast would have been valuable for the students. Students could access the podcast using their smartphones, which in most cases they are already on. If they simply don't want to listen to me yammering, they can simply turn it off. 

Podcasts are very versatile and can be utilized numerous different ways both inside the classroom and outside the classroom. Now I'm sure podcasts exist for the DC idea, but if they don't someone needs to create one! Also, this idea just shows that no opportunity is too small nor too big to take it as learning opportunity.