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Does Podcasting Meet Standards? PDF Print E-mail
Podcasting to Read, Write, Listen, Speak,Think & Publish
This is a hands-on introduction to podcasting with Macintosh Garage Band 3 or later and Podomatic. You'll gather tips for getting your students started, incorporating podcasting into your curriculum. Motivate students to read, write, listen, speak, and think critically about their work. Podcasting resources for Windows users will be included although the Mac platform is used.

The purpose of this workshop is to:

  • gain technology skills to use software to make a podcast
  • learn how writing and publishing podcasts meets a number of English language arts standards for reading, writing, listening, and speaking
  • examine an example poetry lesson, Race In Me, that integrates several technology resources that culminates in the creation of a poetry podcast. Click here to view the entire poetry lesson for students.

Workshop Activities for Teachers

Activity 1 - Podcast Listening

  1. Why is podcasting so popular? Think and share your thoughts with a partner. Listen the the podcast from Cut To The Core Essential Podcast for Educators, the episode.
  2. Use the podcast listening worksheet to keep track of answers to the content questions and write your thoughts.
  3. Discuss your thoughts and ideas that this podcast generated for you with your partner.

Materials

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Activity 2 - Background Ideas About Podcasting

  1. View this presentation
    Click on the pages to navigate forwad.
  2. Discussion questions:
    1. What did you learn from this presentation?
    2. How do you think you might use podcasting in your classroom setting?

Materials

File: Podcast Presentation Slides

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Activity 3 - Learn How to Use GarageBand

Choose one of these options to learn how to use GarageBand to make a podcast

Materials

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Activity 4 - Record Your Script of Yellow Woman

  1. See and listen to an example of Yellow Woman podcast. Click here to view this example.
  2. Use the Yellow Woman podcast storyboard to practice reading into GarageBand. Alternatively, use this blank storyboard handout to help you script your own poetry.
  3. Enhance your podcast with primary source images.
    • Click here to view and dlownload the collection of images for this podcast.
    • Click here to print the image thumnails.
  4. Publish your podcast at PodOmatic. Print and use this PodOmatic handout as a guide.

Materials

  • PodOmatic - link to podcast hosting website
  • icon PodOmatic handout - How to Use Podomatic
  • Yellow Woman podcast example - Listen to a podcast example
  • File: Yellow Woman podcast storyboard - use this storyboard to read your script
  • icon Blank storyboard handout - use this storyboard to write your own script from your poetry
  • icon Image examples as a print document for Yellow Woman enhanced podcast image proof sheet
  • Picassa website with for images to create the Yellow Woman enhanced podcast - images preselected
  • Calisphere - additional archival materials to enhance your podcast
  • American Memory - additional archival materials to enhance your podcast


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Activity 5 - Final Reflections
Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 February 2009 10:03 )