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Podcasting

Discover how podcasts can be used to reinforce grammar learning outside of the classroom. Explore the benefits of pupil recordings and grammar explanations, as well as tools and platforms for recording and sharing podcasts. Peer assessment and immediate revision make this a fantastic tool for audio learners.

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Podcasting

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  1. Podcasting

  2. Podcasting What is a podcast? - effectively an audio file which is then put onto the Internet

  3. Podcasting How have I used them? - Grammar series - pupil recordings - pupil grammar explanations

  4. Podcasting Grammar series created to help reinforce grammar learning OUTSIDE of the classroom - responding to a request by a pupil - FANTASTIC for audio learners

  5. Podcasting Pupil grammar explanations - benefit of explaining to others - need for script - peer assessment on podcasts - minimal teacher input, maximum output - pupils then have an immediate revision tool

  6. Podcasting • Sounds hard, but isn’t! • Record podcast...

  7. Podcasting How to record a podcast... 1) Recording material

  8. Podcasting • How to record a podcast... • Recording material

  9. Podcasting • How to record a podcast... • Recording material

  10. Podcasting • How to record a podcast... • Recording material

  11. Podcasting • How to record a podcast... • Recording material • Audacity for PCs- www.download.com • + LAME FE • (allows you to export as MP3) • OR Garageband for Macs

  12. Podcasting How to record a podcast... A volunteer, anyone...?

  13. Podcasting Facilities in Audacity - amplify - fade in / fade out - putting music over recordings using Creative Commons Licensed music e.g. www.flashkitloops.com

  14. Podcasting Effect of using Audacity - enjoyment - pupils listening to recording over and over to improve it - reinforces learning

  15. Podcasting • Sounds hard, but isn’t! • Record podcast... • Use a podcast host, eg www.jellycast.com • www.podomatic.com • 2) Copy the feed address which you will be given • Eg http://edgehill.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/56

  16. Podcasting So let’s have a look at the blog

  17. In iTunes (free!!), go to the podcast section Podcasting

  18. Podcasting • Scroll down, and you will see this box • You want to Submit a Podcast

  19. Adding the podcast to iTunes • Motivation • Can put onto MP3 players / computers and listen to work again, rather than just forgetting it Podcasting

  20. Pupil recordings - selected recordings again put onto iTunes (EdgehillCast) - great revision tool - pupils listen to their recordings repeatedly whilst editing - all year 10 recordings now going onto i-tunes, allowing them to download their work and peer’s work - providing opportunity to expland learning beyond classroom walls Podcasting

  21. Podcasting And, of course, we can put the podcast onto a blog...

  22. Further fun tools Podcasting Voicethread.com

  23. Further fun tools Podcasting Voki.com • -Allows pupils to “build”a character • Makes speaking exercises less threatening • Highly motivational

  24. Further fun tools Podcasting Voicethread.com -online media album, can hold virtually any type of media (images, documents and videos) -allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) -easy to embed in a blog (or wiki) -allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, ideal for international projects

  25. Further fun tools Podcasting Slidecast - an extension of slideshare.net = allows you to record audio to annotate ppts

  26. Podcasting Podcasts as listening materials... • Coffee Break Spanish -excellent topic explanations

  27. Podcasting Podcasts as listening materials... 2) Elliot school podcasts - KS5 topics, with exercises

  28. Podcasting Podcasts as CPD The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. www.recap.ltd.uk Hosts a range of CPD podcasts

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