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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  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. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Classroom Podcasting for the Middle Grades

    Creating a 3-minute podcast doesn't take 3 minutes or even 30 minutes. It should take about two weeks of dedicating some part of class to researching, interviewing, writing, recording, and editing. Set aside sufficient project time for your students to focus on their podcasting projects. Step 3: Collaborate.

  9. 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 ...

  10. Teaching With Podcasts

    Podcasts are serial recordings, posted regularly online. Robert Rozema describes a podcast as "a blog in audio form" (31). Basically, producing podcasts is the technology-based equivalent of oral storytelling. Much as oral stories and news have been shared with listeners by medieval bards, Native American storytellers, and others, podcasters ...

  11. Starting Your Podcast: A Guide For Students

    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 ...

  12. Podcasts: The Nuts and Bolts of Creating Podcasts

    Use podcast assignments across the curriculum. Podcasts can connect to: Writing: Have students create their own recipe podcasts or critiques of recipes they have tried. ... The "junior" words are more suitable to younger students and the "senior" songs for middle and high school students. Science: Have students write a research report ...

  13. 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 ...

  14. 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 ...

  15. 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 ...

  16. PDF Podcast Planning

    Will the podcast include sound effects or music? Make a list. Name: Date: What ideas do you have for the beginning and ending of the podcast? Make a rough outline of your podcast. e Learning Network . e Learning Network . Author: Gonchar, Michael Created Date: 4/19/2018 1:54:12 PM ...

  17. 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.

  18. 5 Steps to Podcasting for Project-Based Learning

    5 Steps to Podcasting. Step 1: Listen. Start by having your students listen to high-quality audio stories. Students need to hear great audio storytelling and what a good podcast sounds like before embarking on creating their own. Step 2: Plan. Creating a 3-minute podcast doesn't take 3 minutes or even 30 minutes.

  19. My Favorite Podcasts for the Classroom

    In the Dark podcast is the perfect informational text to pair with an op-ed writing assignment because students always have such strong opinions about the topics discussed on the podcast. The podcast focuses on the trials of Curtis Flowers, the alleged murderer of four Tardy Furniture employees in July 1996.

  20. Student Podcast Challenge

    NPR's Student Podcast Challenge is back - with a fourth-grade edition! February 2, 2024 • The 2024 national podcasting contest for middle and high school students is open for entries. It will ...

  21. Help Your Students Make Your Own DIY Podcast

    *Father (not his real name) is the co-host and producer of The Middle School Mind podcast with his 12-year-old son, who is the founder and host of the show. The two started the show as a way to give his son a platform for his tween thoughts while maintaining their privacy and anonymity. Father can be reached via e-mail at middleschoolmind ...

  22. For Faculty: Using Podcasts in the Classroom

    Sample Assignments Using Podcasts Communication Studies This assignment is taken from a course at the University of Western Australia that's meant to explore the medium of podcasting and critically engages with the idea of participatory culture in either the podcast itself or its exegesis.

  23. Podcasting Rubrics » Podcasting and Pedagogy

    Podcasting Rubrics. PODCASTING RUBRICS. By clicking on these links you will find examples of rubrics that you can use to grade podcasting work produced by students. University of Wisconsin. University of Oregon. "This I believe", Podcasting Rubric. Bloom's Digital Taxonomy (Podcasting Rubric)

  24. The activating podcast method: Engaging students through blended

    Educational podcasts supported by visual material present a fruitful middle ground between audio-only podcasts and video knowledge clips that require extensive production processes on the other. ... The podcast assignment presents the challenge of striking the right balance between safeguarding academic weight and providing an activating and ...

  25. NPR Student Podcast Challenge 2024: Finalists : NPR

    Middle School. Branded a Teen ... Two friends use their podcast assignment as an opportunity to interview strangers about their style and discuss how fashion is a creative outlet for many teens.