Podcasting+Ideas

=Podcasting Ideas= A good place to find educational podcasting ideas is http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/ Here you'll be able to find a podcasts created by other educators.

Below are a few ideas from a book called //The Macintosh iLife '08 in the Classroom// by Jim Heid. This book has a great overview of the iLife suite, as well as some great lesson ideas in the back of the book.


 * Math Podcast Idea:** Create a "Problem-of-the-Week" podcast to help students better understand how to solve a particular math problem

OR Have students practice reading and recording any sort of text and analyzing their level of fluency and comprehension
 * ELA Podcast Idea:** Create a Poetry Slam podcast in which students will record themselves reading poetry and possibly enhancing the poems with images


 * Music Idea:** Create a musical piece using Magic GarageBand (or just playing real or software instruments in GarageBand) and have the students alter things like tempo and type of instrument to understand composition and interpretation.

Create a classic (or modern) radio show about a particular topic and have students speak different parts in the show. This could be anything from an old radio dramatization, or a modern news show covering a particular story and interviewing important politicians, celebrities, etc. Or to keep it simple, it could just be simple commercials or public service announcements
 * ELA or History/Social Science (or could possibly be any other content area):**

=Paula Wilson's Digital Storytelling Ideas= These are ideas in various content areas that Paula has developed for her digital storytelling class.

=**What are you some of your ideas? Feel free to list below (please include your name) or in the discussion forum.**=

Lisa, Gayle, Marina: ELL Group
 * Ideas from Summer 2009 Session:**

Janet, Elaine, April:Agassiz Group

Karen, Margery, David, and Felicia:

Patricia, Connie, PK:


 * Ideas from Spring 2009 Session:**

-Creating subplans. Assignments, create something and pass it in. - Using it for students who aren't there. Great to have something 1x/day or end of a unit as a review for people that have missed days - Difference when using with students. Eval'ing students, create a podcast based on some content area. Exemplary ones could be put online. - Snapgrades. Can upload files in this. Can put assignments in this. Any size limitations in snapgrades
 * High School**

- Radio show like on WGBH Radio. Half hour long literacy piece. Have children voice over music while it's running. Create a CD at the end, or mp3 file. - Art projects where a certain artist is studied. Bio of a particular artist.
 * Elem. Art/Music**

- Intro on a unit as a motivator. Pics, sounds, to get them interested in the unit. - Culminating activity shared with parents. Short, three min. video discussing things they have learned on a specific topic (in this case, the Arctic)
 * Elem. possibly creating movies**

- Social studies with photos. American landmarks, Revolutionary War - Lesson to be used with kids. Elements of a story.
 * Elem. other cool stuff**

We mentioned in class the idea of using podcasts by older students to help younger students learn to read. Check out what what of my English teacher colleagues has done with some of her students: [] (added by Richard Freed)