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AJ and his first day in kindergarten - a podcast interview
This one is a father interviewing his son about his first day of kindergarten. (Carol) AJ is bright and ADHD and Gail admits she listened to the WHOLE thing.)
Audio Biography
Use podcasting to have students create a living audio biography of someone they've studied. (Bev thinks the fifth graders in her school could use it with a Famous Mainer unit.)
Baffling Biomes (pdf)
Students use various technology to piece together a presentation on the chosen biome. The presentation includes sound clips, video and written information gained from research and a trip to the zoo. (Brenda)
Earth Watch Radio
(Deb)
iPod Reporters (pdf)
Students have i-pod recorders to record interviews to be listened to later to create an article. (Brenda)
Lesson Plan for Podcasts: The Week in Review
"Students record information on what they learned throughout the week in the form of a news article as a way to review what they have learned." (Brenda) The class podcast link doesn't work; the authors suggest Audacity, a free sound program available for PCs, Macs and Linux machines.
Learning Math With Music (pdf)
Students create music to help them learn the math facts. (Brenda) "The portability of the iPod can help with developing math skills by allowing students to listen repetitively to the math facts inside or outside of the classroom."
Food Companies Targeting Kids Online
Food advertising to kids. Students have to listen to a podcast for information to learn from an actual article about advertising. (Brenda). This is one example in a series of Breaking News in English for ESL learners. Listeners can subscribe to the RSS feed.
Elementary School Students Become Podcasting Pros
~ This is an article from Wells, Maine where third and fourth grade students are using podcasting to enhance their reading, writing, and speaking. Podcasting has proven to be a huge motivator for students and created an environment where students are self-correcting themselves as they work together. (Megan)
Room 208 (EPN)
~ This is a podcast from room 208 - the classroom in Wells that I (Megan) mentioned above. The class is interviewing Leah Tondreau - she graduated from UMaine and we were in band together so I was excited about this connection :o) Leah teaches in Garland but she traveled to Wells to interview the class to learn more about podcasting. The podcast is all about how this class uses podcasting - how they set up jobs - when they record - how they choose topics for their podcasts. (Megan & Carol)
This classroom website of Bob Spranke, shows his amazing work with Podcasting in his third-fourth grade classrooms out of Wells Elementary School. He has used these podcasts to reach a global audience and has his students involved in creating them. They cover such recent topics as "the flood of 2006" which hit the Southern Maine communities hard this past May, and even have weekly features such as "Word of the Week", "Mail Corner", "Weird Fact of the Week", "Elizabeth's Ark", and "Amazing Animals of the World." All are extremely well-done, and focus on developing quality writing and speaking skills. I am thoroughly impressed with Mr. Sprankle's work with podcasting and overall use of technology in his classroom. It is certainly a model that I am happy to have found- especially considering how close it is to my hometown! :-) (Lindsay)
(Bob Sprankle's Blog He is no longer the teacher in Room 208 but the Tech Coordinator for the school.)
Falcon Podcasting Network (EPN)
~This is a podcast from a kindergarten classroom where they are reading a story. This is a fantastic way to work on fluent reading and motivate kids to work on re-reading and practicing reading aloud to build fluent reading skills. (Megan)
Education Podcast Network
I thought I had a real find with The Education Podcast Network, many of the podcasts were student created and could be used for samples for students, but not many were what I would use for instruction with students. I also found that not all links were active and some of the middle level of the podcasts were not necessarily appropriate for my students. (Beth)
This site holds a huge collection of podcasts in education. Teachers can post them here, or check here for podcasts to use in class. Great idea generator! (Melissa)
There are some listings of educational podcast programs, but most of the ones I found were not very good. Many podcasts are not maintained, or were poorly produced in the first place. (Glenn)
Jan Brett's April Hedge-O-Gram
This podcast includes a talk with Jan Brett. I think this is a great look at an author and the research or knowledge that he/she must be familar with to create a book. (Beth)
Mabry Middle School in Marietta, GA
Math Grad Podcast
The Education Podcast Network is easily sortable by the subject you are teaching. (Zac)
Online News Hour
The best educational example of podcasting I found was the PBS site. They provide podcasts with news about politics, science, the supreme court, and current news. This could be used in a class to keep the subjects current and relevant. (Glenn)
Podcasts for educators, schools and colleges
(This link doesn't take you directly to this piece. choose podcasts from schools in the search and leave the box blank and it should be the second result) This is basically the next generation of reading rainbow. Using podcasting, the author of this children's book and his daughter were able to present their story to kids in various schools. I think this could be the new wave of storytime for young grade school kids. Instead of having to spend money on books (that eventually degrade) and having the teacher read to the class, schools could have the kids tune in to scheduled podcasts on their favorite books throughout the day. I suppose there is something to be said about having the actual teacher read the stories to the kids. That being the case, each school/teacher could be responsible for doing so many episodes of a podcast on certain books, and then they could share their links with other schools so there is a balance between online storytime and in person time. (Jon)
Science Friday
(Deb)
Wild Classroom
This is a great way for science teachers to bring the Amazon, Alpine Tundra's, snakes, birds, and all other wild adventures to a classroom. The feed answers questions that many science classrooms explore with opportunities to look deeper without leaving the classroom. It also includes lesson plans, a store, and a teachers page to help you along the way.
(I used to teach science, and I was fascinated by this page) (Alyse)
Word Up (Math Terminology)
This is a mathematics vocabulary podcast. I like finding ways that illustrate how important communication of math is part of our everyday world, the fact that this includes the use of technology is a plus. I'll share this with my math-teaching colleagues; I can see this being used as a warm up at the beginning of class as well as a connection to a mathematics word wall. (Beth)
This is not a podcast but a video series from Apple (for teachers) on how to use Garage Band to create a podcast. The first video is an introduction to podcasting that I could use this as a "tutorial" with my computer applications students. I would require students to have multiple windows open and to follow the steps demonstrated on the video as it is playing (stopping the video to follow the steps previously demonstrated). For this practice using Garage Band to create a podcast I would require students create the national park podcast demonstrated. I would need to provide students with a written version of the narration and the photos used in the video. I will need to become familar with the software's features so I can answer questions and help students as needed. (Beth)
If you want to refresh your memory check out Apple's GarageBand video tutorials (Gail)
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