Podcasting session…
Some notes from a TETA Summer Institute session.
Podcasting with Purpose
Hint: Good activity to do early with your students is a joke show – cycle through the class, they all get good experience and learning timing, effects etc…..
Where can we take podcasting? –
Public relations
Curricular supplement
Professional development
Academic expression
Topic ideas:-
5 things
What are 5 things about your community or school?
About 2 min
Where in the world?
Distributed podcasting
Quiz show
Geography culture history
Create a podcast describing your city without mentioning the name, and then you submit the podcast, add an email address, and people will email their guesses to you.
Unpacking the Day
Each student has a turn
Discuss what happened on the day
Becomes revision notes
Reference for parents
Our View
Roundtable discussion
Each student brings a topic
Explain the facts
Learn to process facts together
Share opinions constructively
Other ideas….Book Reviews, PodPals (exchange podcasts with other schools), pet talk, present yourself as a famous person – ie interview, joke show.
Tools:- Tools to work in the background during presentations which records your voice and the powerpoint together.
