Making Students' Voices Heard!
Innovative Ideas and Practices from ICCSD Educators
Podcasts have been around for quite a while, but more and more teachers are using this medium for students to express their learning. Not familiar with Podcasting? Check out this video explanation from Jonathan Wylie of the GWAEA Digital Learning Team.
At City High, Jonathan Rogers's Advanced Journalism class creates radio shows or podcasts. Some of The Little Hawk's top shows include Politikid, The Minority Report, LH Book Reviews, and Sounds of the City. They record with a Yeti Mic and use the program SoundTrap. They also work with regular mics hooked up to a computer and upload to SoundCloud for online sharing.
Students Podcasting Across Grade Levels
Elementary
Junior High
Evan Hartley's 8th-grade students created book reviews that included several required elements and extended the assignment, if desired, to include optional elements that were gathered from listening to professional book reviews found on the NPR Book Reviews website. The ultimate goal was to post the book reviews to the library catalog Destiny so that other students could listen to them as they were browsing for new books to read. Examples here and here.
High School
Kate Richey’s English 11/12 at Tate High engaged in a podcasting unit in order to uncover the nuances of storytelling. The students analyzed podcasts from The Moth and Mortified in order to assess the traits of a good story, and discover what makes for a solid podcast session. Students crafted personal narratives tied to the theme of life lessons. Utilizing Sound Trap, the students created music and recorded their own narratives in podcast sessions in the Makerspace.
The 4Cs: Developing a Tech Integrated Classroom
Registration for this course ends February 14th, but our first class session is the week of the 7th!
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Tools to Try
Collaboration
Creativity
Communication
Instructional Design Strategists of Innovation
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