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  1. A Simple Process and Template for Student Podcasting

    Step 2: Explore and Choose Tools for Podcasting. Screenshot by author. If your students have cell phones, then they all can record audio. But they may need to check to see that their apps can save and share the files in an MP3 format. Or you may be using school-issued devices such as Chromebooks or iPads.

  2. Teaching Podcasting: A Curriculum Guide for Educators : NPR

    Part 1: Small-group brainstorming, 30 minutes. *If your class is creating podcasts in small groups, have them split into those small groups now and spend the entire class period completing this ...

  3. Project Audio: Teaching Students How to Produce Their Own Podcasts

    Project Workshop Step 1: Planning a Podcast. Students should fill out their own podcast planning form (PDF), beginning with their focus question. The form also asks students to think about ...

  4. How to Create Student Podcasts in the Classroom: All Your Questions

    A: I first had my students complete an outline of their episode based on the type of podcast they wanted to create (see above). They divided their episode up by segment and wrote a series of "talking points" for each. Sometimes they wrote complete sentences, while other times they just wrote bullet points.

  5. Podcasting in the Classroom: Activities & Recommendations

    Using Podcasting in the Classroom: Activities and Recommendations. January 14, 2022. There seems to be a podcast for everything and everyone. And a growing number of people are finding their audio niche: More than a quarter of Americans listen to podcasts weekly, open_in_new according to The Infinite Dial 2021.

  6. Starting Your Podcast: A Guide For Students : NPR

    2. A computer with sound editing software. Once you've recorded your interviews or the sounds you want to use, you'll need to put them all together into your podcast. To do this, you need to use ...

  7. Podcasts: The Nuts and Bolts of Creating Podcasts

    Teaching with this printout. Podcasts can be used across grade levels and content areas. This tool provides the nuts and bolts of creating a podcast, including links to video tutorials with thorough instructions and free software. Peruse the Extras section to access resources with free audio and images to use with your podcasts.

  8. Creating Podcasts with Your Students

    When planning, consider the length of your podcast. This will be based on your content and audience. With Radio WillowWeb, we try to keep our podcasts around 8 minutes long, which seems to work well for our audience of kids. If your podcast is involving an entire classroom of students, the teacher should find ways to involve everyone in ...

  9. Making a Podcast That Matters: A Guide With 21 Examples From Students

    Step V: Write the script. At this point you have a proposed outline for what your podcast will sound like, from start to finish. Now you just need to fill in the details. For Podcasts With ...

  10. A Teacher's Guide To Using Apps To Make A Podcast : NPR

    Eric Applen, who teaches 21st century technology and careers at Friedell Middle School in Rochester, Minn., oversees the school's podcast club and says he taught himself how to use Audacity. "It ...

  11. How to Use Podcasts in Middle School ELA Classrooms

    1. Choose podcasts that align with your lesson plans. Try to make sure there's a connection. Maybe you're teaching your students to analyze character development in stories. In that case, use a podcast that tells stories with rich character development. With the recent rise in educational and storytelling podcasts, this shouldn't be too ...

  12. Podcasting as Instruction

    Incorporating podcasting assignments and projects into the classroom provides students another way to connect and engage with the curriculum. It encourages another means of representation and expression and leans into the idea that coursework need not be confined to a restrictive Canvas quiz or assignment format.

  13. How to plan a podcast unit for middle school and high school

    Luckily, this post will cover both! To be successful with having students create podcasts, they must first listen to podcasts as mentor texts. Read to the end to get all the podcast unit planning information you will need! 1. Get Inspired to use podcasts in the classroom.

  14. Basic Podcasting Assignment

    Overview. A podcast can be an easy way to introduce students to communicating in a less conventional way, typically coinciding with or replacing short essays, personal experiences or research papers. A good podcast communicates a message effectively and creatively. Use this guide to create a custom podcasting assignment for your class.

  15. Getting Started with Student Podcast Assignments

    Preparing Students for the Assignment. Students will need to be able to record and edit the podcast on either their computer, a tablet, or a smartphone. Typically, the free software package Audacity, supported here at Duke, is used for recording and editing. Students can use OIT's Multimedia Project Studio for recording and editing.

  16. PDF Create a Podcast

    • How do you access podcasts? Content: Review instructions for creating a podcast as interactive digital lesson (Supplement 2) advances. Ask students to complete the due dates on their Creating a Podcast Assignment sheet (Supplement 3) when the Procedures and Timeline section appears (it appears twice—the second time is for review).

  17. Podcasting assignments

    Learning goals. Podcasting assignments can encourage creativity, collaboration, and provide a sense of community. Podcasting assignments can provide students opportunities to practice writing and presentation skills, as well as experience expressing themselves through multimedia. As a strictly linear medium, students must focus on the sequence ...

  18. Your Final Assignment Is…a Podcast.

    Podcasts are also frequently rhetorical — they call upon their audience to accept some new piece of information or to take action. However, transferring written content to a new medium isn't always a straightforward process. For example, if a student recorded herself reading a school paper aloud, the end result wouldn't be a podcast.

  19. Appendix C: Podcast Assignments & Examples

    Assignment #1: Ethics Discussion. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are now widely available for podcasters - from doing mundane tasks such as transcribing, to the creative work of cover art and music, and more controversial uses such as cloned voices or creating entire podcasts from AI. See Ch. 1 for coverage of AI issues in podcasting.

  20. Going Digital

    Some possible steps are: Topic selection. Source selection. Draft script/outline/interview questions. Final podcast. Smaller projects, such as weekly mini-podcasts replacing a journaling assignment, may need fewer steps and shorter timelines, but don't expect high production quality! Recording and editing a podcast takes time.

  21. How to Use Podcasts for History

    When students engage with historical materials in creative ways like producing podcasts and photography projects, they find the work deeply meaningful, writes history teacher Sarah Cooper in "6 Takeaways From a History Podcast Project" for MiddleWeb.By working with primary source materials, students not only gain a better understanding of history but also develop skills needed to process ...

  22. Instructions handout for podcast project assignment

    Instructions handout for podcast project assignment. Slightly generalized version of our podcast instructions handout for students. Should be tailored to the resources available at a given institution/campus. File 36903 is a 137kB Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) Uploaded: Nov5 12. Last Modified: 2012-11-05 15:27:46. https://serc.carleton.edu ...

  23. Free Podcast Reflection Printable Worksheet

    At WeAreTeachers, our staff can't get enough of them. We're constantly trading recommendations for the best podcasts for kids and adults. That's why we created this free podcast reflection sheet for your classroom! If you have a podcast listening station or ask students to listen to podcasts in class or for homework, this reflection sheet ...

  24. How a humble Indian fabric became a symbol of luxury in 1960s America

    On the cover of Lisa Birnbach's "The Official Preppy Handbook," a tongue-in-cheek 1980s guide to looking, acting and thinking like a US prep school elite, a pattern along the border depicts ...