Podcasting

Discover.

Podcasting has many benefits. Not only will students improve their fluency, speaking skills, and confidence, but they will learn positive ways to become producers, not only consumers, of content. Listen to the students of Willowdale Elementary, located in Omaha, Nebraska:

Sample Student Podcast

Learn.

GarageBand is a great tool for podcast creation. Learn the ins and outs below:

Garageband Podcast Creation

Do.

What can your students podcast?

www.edtechteacher.org provided these specific ideas for integrating audio recording:

• Students interview relatives about their life histories, and then combine the audio interview with family photos in a video project.
• Students write a radio drama based on a historical event and record their show (complete with commercials).
• Students learn about a different country by interviewing a recent traveler. They record the interview and then create a digital travel album.
• Students create a faux advertising campaign to convince immigrants to settle the new American colonies.
• Students use audio recording to interview sources for articles for a class newspaper.
• Students write and record short stories and add music and sound effects.
• Teacher records a tutorial that students listen to on their own
• Present student writing through a class radio drama or a poetry slam.
• Teacher records and broadcasts group discussions.
• Teachers might record students reading a story as a fluency assessment, or as a foreign language pronunciation activity.
• On a field trip, students use an iPod with a voice recorder to take notes and a digital camera to take photos. They then create a guided tour in iMovie.