Share 5 teaching strategies or ideas that specifically incorporate the use of Podcasting or Audio in the classroom. These are actual classroom activities, at various grade levels, that incorporate both student and teacher created audio content.
Podcasting Our Way to Reading: Increasing nonfiction comprehension and fluency:
- Below is the overview for this assignment/activity. I think it is a great idea for the classroom and could be altered to work for different grades, and the tools, resources, and curriculum that were available to you.
Author: Jill Janes
Current Event Newscasts: Practice non-fiction reading skills by having your students do weekly or monthly podcasts on an interesting current event. Students will learn to find the main idea and summarize nonfiction as they read current events news from both print and digital sources. Description
In order to help students become more fluent readers while practicing nonfiction reading skills, my students will create digital podcasts with current events news on a monthly basis. Students will first practice comprehension skills by reading and summarizing nonfiction news articles. Then, they will create a "script", practice being fluent readers, and record their digital podcasts before posting them for live, authentic audiences.
Objective
Students will learn to find the main idea and summarize nonfiction as they read current events news from both print and digital sources. Students will also increase their oral reading fluency as they practice reading aloud and record themselves. They will develop self-evaluation skills as they evaluate their own podcast performances. Students will also gain technology skills as they learn to use digital audio recording software and web site creation software.
Materials
The project will use digital voice recorders(5), web site creation software (iWeb), digital recording software (Garage Band), microphones (5) Internet and print media, headphones (5) and laptops (5)
Free Audio Books and Why You Should Try Them: Listening and reading: a multi-sensory approach to reading that works (by Amy Mascott):
- This is an article by Scholastic that explains the importance of audio books and gives 8 different links for free audio books.
- I know for our school this is useful knowledge to pass along since we are beginning the Daily Five structure for our Language Arts curriculum. The Daily Five incorporates one of its five options as audio books for students to listen to the correct fluency, and pronunciation, etc. of a book.
- Creating Your Own Audio Books for the Classroom:
- After reading through the Scholastic article I realized it would be nice to know how to record my own audio books that could then be put on whatever devices we had in the classroom for Daily Five. After looking through Pinterest I found another teacher who had the same concern/idea as myself since she also teaches L.A. using the Daily Five structure. She gives a tutorial on how to use an Apple App as an audio book recording tool. I have also pasted a link to connect to resources for PC Apps that do the same thing.
- Ideas for Podcasting in the Classroom:
- This link has a couple different ideas for podcasting across different subjects. They also list the external resources used so that you could then do your own further research into each topic.
- The Walking Classroom:
- This link explains how the idea of the Walking Classroom came about and how to connect to it. I like this idea since I myself enjoy listen to educational podcasts while I am commuting to and from work. It’s a great concept to combine, what Ontario Education would call, DPA (daily physical activity which is suppose to be separate from physical education and recess) and learning, and I think it could be done in Ontario schools as well (if it’s not already being done).
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