Podcasting for the Primary Crowd

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Definitions

What's a podcast? What's an enhanced podcast?

Why Podcast?

Recording Tools

Software:  Record your podcasts using the Audacity Audio Editor

• (At school, go to the Application Explorer Folder.)
• Audacity Manual
• Audacity Quick start page and sample screen
• Save your podcasts to your school webpage.
• Consider adding pictures with PhotoStory, VoiceThread, PowerPoint

Hardware: headsets, microphones, sound recording kit

• You can use a simple desktop mike, a headset, or the Podcast Kit from the computer lab. 
• Setting up the podcast equipment
• Using the equipment

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...

Reaching the Audience

• simple playback for kids in the class
• copy to a CD to send home with students
• post on class or district website 
• upload to VoiceThread 
• consider combining your audio with pictures.  You can upload to Glogster, VoiceThread, Animoto...

Listening to Podcasts

More Info

Twenty-Six Interesting Ways to Use Audio in Your Classroom

Podcasting for Reading Fluency: a bibliography

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

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

Listening to Themselves: article in Edutopia

Jake Ludington's MediaBlab: Tips for Recording a Podcast