Podcasting to build literacy

Posted on April 8, 2007 
Filed under Examples




I began podcasting because I enjoyed listening to podcasts myself, and found them an interesting medium. When I began podcasting, I thought it would mostly inspire my “talkers”, the boys and girls in the class who have leadership skills, but aren’t always sure how to make the best use of them. These students do enjoy podcasting, but the surprise I had was seeing how many of my quiet students found their voices with podcasting. I keep an archive of the podcasts I do with my class. There are basically two types of podcasts, the weekly ones, which go out over the phone via ConnectEd to parents to let them know what is happening in our class. The other podcasts are the weekly discussions of our Open Court selection. My students have done an excellent job this year of tying themes, and events from our stories to their own experience, and the experience of their classmates. Quite frankly, they have humbled me.

The process for implementing this in my classroom:

  1. I began by doing the first class podcast myself with my son reading the script (so the students could see it was possible)
  2. Next, I then wrote the scripts and had students read from it.
  3. Currently, I give students an outline, and have them write the script. Another groups of students are the newsreaders.
  4. I hope to have them coming up with the topics in the future.

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