Podcasting and Webcasting

Why Podcast?

 

NYS ELA Learning Standards:  " Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding, for literary response and expression,  for critical analysis and evaluation, and for social interaction." 

 

Podcasts for Instruction and Review

Podcasts as a Student Project 

(and for Differentiation)

Podcasts as an Assessment Tool

Podcasts for Communication

Podcasts for Professional Development

Podcasts for Fun

Literature Podcasts

 

Recording Tools

Record your podcasts using the Audacity Audio Editor (At school, go to W:Technology/Podcasting/Software.)

Audacity Tips

Save your podcasts to the Podcast Central wiki or to your school webpage.

 

What to record:

Reports, music, poems, stories, interviews, movie reviews, book reports, readers' theater, demonstrations, instructions, review sessions, today's lessons for kids sick at home...

 

 

Publishing Tools (for a non-Mac world)

Publishing Podcasts: Audio, hosting, and RSS feeds

Mixed Media: Try VoiceThread.  Want to make a music video or an illustrated poem?  Try Animoto.

Listening to Podcasts

 

Further Reading (and listening and viewing!)

Podcasting for Reading Fluency: a bibliography

Make Magazine's Podcasting 101

Podcasting Puts a Foot in the Door --thoughtful blog post on why podcasting works.

The Tech Teacher Podcast Integrating mp3 Players into the Classroom

Elevating Creation in Bloom’s Taxonomy in lesson design--Keepin' it real

Jake Ludington's MediaBlab: Tips for Recording a Podcast