How Can I Use Podcasting in My Classroom?

1. Audio Tours: Students record school tours, acting as the tour guide so newcomers can explore the school through the eyes of a peer.

2. Celebrate Culture: Students podcast about important cultural events and share these with parents, the school, or the community around them.

3. Current Events Newscasts: Students deliver weekly or monthly podcasts on interesting current events.

4. Debates: Hold a class debate. Record it in audio and have other students listen and weigh in.

5. Guest speakers: Make podcasts of class guest speakers to share with absent students or future classes. This can be stored in the podcast library (mentioned below).

6. Interviews: Have students interview each other as well as teachers and administrators about important school-wide events such as a sports competition or an award ceremony.

7. Musical Podcasts: Have band or orchestra students create podcasts for each instrument, detailing its specific sounds and characteristics.

8. Podcast Library: Curate the varied student-created podcasts into a library of podcasts for present and future students.

9. Publish Presentations: Instead of writing a book report or acting out a play, students record the presentation as a podcast, using only their voice to communicate ideas and build excitement.

10. Radio Show: Students make short radio broadcasts summarizing the books they are reading.

11. Roving Reporters: Send students out into the “Field” (read that: the school campus) to interview key players in important events.

Anchor.fm Anchor is a free, beginner-friendly platform for podcast creation, containing tools that allow users to record and edit audio, arrange it into podcast episodes, publish podcasts to listening platforms, and monetize content by collecting listener contributions or adding advertisements into episodes

WeVideo is the district's video and audio recording and editing software. Easily record and edit your podcasts. Exported files could then be stored on a YouTube Channel, class website, etc.

NPR Teaching Podcasting: A Curriculum Guide for Educators

NY Times - Teaching Your Students How to Produce their own Content

Podcast Pairings for the Secondary ELA Classroom

Using Podcasts Successfully in ELA

Podcast Resource Bundle ($12) from TPT

The Pandemic Podcast Project from TPT ($5)

Podcast Reflection Sheet (PDF) from We Are Teachers

Podcast Reflection Sheet (Google Doc)