Pod Casting

Post date: Feb 27, 2017 7:25:06 PM

10 Podcasting Projects

Part 1

Cloze Reading: http://www.macworld.com/article/1044428/software-graphics/junecreate.html

Reading closely means reading for meaning and understanding. Follow these 8 steps to perform your own close reading. To begin, read your passage slowly. To begin, read your passage slowly.

Task 1: Identify any vocabulary you are unfamiliar with and look up the definition. Double check that the definition makes sense in the context of the text. Place in the first section of the email.

Task 2: Language Choice - identify any language that attracts your attention for any reason. Why do you find it interesting? Jot down your reasons in the second section of the email

Task 3: Verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs. Identify the ones you find in the passage. What do you notice? Are there any patterns? Comment on your findings in the email.

Task 4: Predictions - what might happen next? Why? Email.

Task 5: Opinions and reflections - what do you think of the story/narrators/characters? Email

Task 6: Connections - does the task remind you about your own experiences? Or other books and films? What are the similarities? email.

Task 7: Questions - note them, and remember there is no such thing as a stupid question. Try to list more open questions than closed questions in your email.

Task 8: What key themes from the novel do you think are reflected in the passage? email.

And remember it is one email, not eight.

Part 2

If orange is the new black, podcasting is the new oral report. It is quickly becoming the latest creative mode of learning and presenting in schools. Here are 10 ideas to try today.

Current Events Newscasts: Practice nonfiction reading skills by having your students do weekly or monthly podcasts on an interesting current event.
Reading Radio: Have your students make short radio broadcasts summarizing the books they are reading.
Roving Reporters: Send your students out into the “field” (a.k.a. the school) to interview key players in important school events.
Celebrate Culture: Have your students record podcasts about important cultural months like Black History Month or Hispanic Heritage Month and then present them to the school or parents to commemorate the events.
Bring Your Teacher Home: Send a little bit of yourself home with your kids by podcasting important parts of your lessons.
Podcasting Library: Have your students collaborate to create a library of podcasts from which future students can learn.
MusicCasts: Have band or orchestra students create podcasts for each instrument, detailing specific notes, sounds and characteristics of each instrument.
Awesome Audio Tours: Give your students the chance to be tour guides for new students at your school by having them podcast school tours that kids can listen to when they enter.
Podcasting Pen Pals: Record interactive or encouraging podcasts and then send them to another classroom in another state or country.
Reenactments: Have your students reenact important events in history using period language and vocabulary.

If you need more ideas, visit 50-of-the-best-podcasts-for-high-school-students/.

After listening, analyze the structure and content of the podcast. Write about it in an email, make sure to include a paragraph about why you choose the podcast that you choose.

Part 3

OK, now it's game time! You need to create your own podcast. Be sure that you write a proposal.

Keep in mind that you need to have a production schedule before you start the first episode.

At this point, you are ready to embark on your Podcast journey. But before you begin, it is important to be sure that you know where you are headed. In order to ensure as successful of a process as possible, you need to submit a proposal about the topic you intend to research. This accomplishes two very important goals. First, it gives the instructor the opportunity to give you feedback on your topic and to provide you with any necessary input regarding the need to narrow or broaden your topic, or perhaps consider another topic. Secondly, it holds you accountable to a specific topic, a goal you can begin to push yourself toward through thinking, researching, and writing.

Your Podcast proposal needs to include the following:

I. A clear proposal declaration, stating the topic you intend to research. This should be no more than two or three sentences.

II. A clear statement explaining why you have chosen this topic. This should be long enough to give the reader a good explanation as to why you want to research the topic, what drove you to select your area of research, why it appeals to you. A short paragraph should be sufficient.

III. The process you intend to go through to obtain needed information, and what you will do with the information once you have gotten it. This may include:

Describing what you have done thus far (how you selected your interviewee and your sources), as well as

What you are going to do in the days ahead.

· You should include a “time line” of how you are going to use your time wisely in order to meet the required deadlines

· How you will discipline yourself to do the work (time management/scheduling), and

· How you will deal with any possible distractions or setbacks, which might arise.

This third section will be the longest, and should probably be about two full paragraphs long.

You will need to record one episode and then in the email that you are sending to turn it in include the plan for the next 5 episodes.

Software http://www.audacityteam.org/

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