Using Podcasting in an Elementary Classroom
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Our Backgrounds
• We teach in the Kenton City Schools.
• Patty teaches fourth grade at Espy Elementary.
• Shelly is a reading interventionist at Eastcrest Elementary.
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How do Children Benefit from Making a Podcast?
• It gives them a potential audience of millions for their work.
• It's great for developing literacy skills (writing scripts, setting up interviews etc).
• It allows children to develop and practice their speaking and listening skills.
• Podcasts can be interactive, and the audience can be invited to send their comments, giving valuable feedback to the children about their work.
What is a Podcast?
• “Podcasting" is a method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost. It first became popular in late 2004, used largely for audio files.
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How Can I Create a Podcast?
• 8 easy steps.• See the attached
help-sheet in your packet
• We do not currently publish our podcasts on the Internet with an RSS feed
Step #3
• You will record your audio into the Male or Female Voice track. Click on it to highlight it.
Step #4
• Click on the Rewind button and then Record. You can now start speaking and GarageBand will record your voice. To stop recording, click the Play button.
Rewind Record Play
Step #5
• Add intro and conclusion music.
• Click on the Eye button to see the different loops you can add to your song.
• Click Jingles and you can see the different jingles sorted by genres.
• Select the jingle that you want and drag it to the Jingles track.
Step #6
• Once you let up on the mouse button, the loop will be placed in the timeline.
• You can now drag your recorded podcast (the purple) so that it will start playing at the end of your jingle.
Step #7
• To add notes for your listeners, click on Information.
• On the right side of the screen the information window for the podcast will open. At the bottom of the screen you will see an area for description.
• In this area, you can describe your podcast.
Step #8
• Once your podcast is finished, you’ll need export it out of Garageband. Go to Share->Export Podcast to Disk.
• We have the students drag the podcast to our Shared folder.
Peer Teaching
• Peer teaching/coaching with multi-age students
• In our classes, older students record themselves reading a book. Later a younger student can follow along as the book is read to them.
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Online Book Reviews
• After reading a book, a student records a review or critique of the book.
• This enables other students to listen to their classmates’ opinions of certain books before they read them.
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Informational Reporting
• After learning about a topic, students can create a recording of their learning to share with others in a radio broadcast format.
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Reading and Comprehension Strategies
• Students can record themselves performing retellings and summaries of a book they have read.
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Current Events
• Students can report their opinion on a current event and respond to other students’ opinions
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Weekly Radio Show
• Each show has its own host, theme, and unique segments which can include things like “Bad Joke, Good Joke,” “Holiday Spotlight,” “Poetry Corner” and much more.
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Create a How-To-Report
• Students can record themselves giving directions on how to complete an activity.QuickTime™ and a
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Other Ideas
• School news - a great way of telling children and parents what is going on at your school.
• Children's work - children love sharing their work. Ask them to record their own stories, or write reports about an activity they've tried at school
• Interviews - with members of staff, children, members of the community, and visitors to school.
Helpful Tips for Podcasting
• Have students listen to other podcast before beginning their own.
• Have students create rough scripts for use during the Podcast.
More Information
• To find more education podcasts, try Ipodcast (http://www.ipodcast.org.uk/) and the Education Podcast Network (http://epnweb.org/). For more general podcasts, take a look at Podcast Alley (http://www.podcastalley.com/) or Podfeed.net
PC Users
• Other software available: http://
audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://www.clickcaster.com/
Audacity is a free, easy to use, software-based audio recorder and editor.
Questions?
• If you have any questions, please email us at:
• [email protected]• [email protected]
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