Introduction
Apple has made podcasts what they are today. Digital Natives want to watch a video or listen to a radio program at their convenience—anywhere, anytime. Busy Saturday mornings and can’t listen to CarTalk or Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me? Go to ITunes or NPR and download the program. Listen to an interview with the author the book your students are reading. Try a current issues podcast instead of the print ‘current event’ article. Record a class for an absent student.
Vocabulary
Audacity—editing and recording software for audio files, a free, opensource program
Podcast—iPod + Broadcasting = podcasting. Digital media files (most often .mp3) that can be listened to on computers or portable media players like ipods or .mp3 players
Podcatcher—a place to syndicate or publish your podcast
Vodcast—a video podcast, like aYouTube video ‘published to the web’
Quick Start Guide
Audacity Quick Start Guide by Wesley Fryer
Technical Tips for podcasting
Multimedia Resources (Presentation, Podcast, or Video)
Video: Podcasting in Plain English (Commoncraft)
Classroom Audio Podcasting by Wesley Fryer (website))
Step by step audacity instructions http://kidsvoice.pbwiki.com/
In the Classroom
Lots of lesson plans on the web—try Googling the keywords ‘podcasting’ ‘lesson plans’
Great for oral histories, interviews, students write scripts, select questions to ask, practice speaking—meets all kinds of VT Framework Language Arts standards
Review
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PRO
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Engaging, authentic, and integrates technology—gives students and teachers another type of assessment.
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CON
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Not for visual learners
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Bottom Line
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Digital Natives are plugged in
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Assignment
- In your project groups, create a short podcast (less than 5 minutes). The topic is totally your choice, ideas: Web 2.0, a how-to for your students, a book or movie review, an ‘exemplar’ of a podcast to use with students, whatever….
- Write a script or try unscripted if you dare. (Try Google Docs to collaborate on the script).
- Edit using Audacity software.
- Add copyright-free music clips at the beginning and the end. Use PodsafeAudio to find your music. (This requires creating an account).
- Save your podcast as an .mp3 file.
- Upload it to our class wiki web204u.pbwiki.com
- For overachievers: Publish your podcast to Podomatic.com—yes it does require creating another log in account.
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