07.18.08
Thing 17 – Do uPodcast?
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Before reading through the podcasting information listed on the K12 Learning wiki, my search for educational podcasts was limited to the Education Podcast Network, NPR, and iTunes. To be honest, I’ve never been entirely satisfied with the variety of podcasts available for elementary age students; they are either too long, too short, too advanced, or too juvenile. I find this is especially true on iTunes. If you have had better success with iTunes than I have, I’d love your suggestions for my new class of fourth-graders in the fall. Now I’m happy to have added Learn Out Loud and PBS to my delicious page, hopefully to meet my future podcasting needs.
I watched a CNN Student News’ “Young People Who Rock” video podcast. I got lucky and found that this recent episode featured Zac Sunderland, a 16 year-old who is attempting to break a world record by sailing all the way around the world..alone. I was thinking that this news story would be the perfect introduction to the chapter in our textbook about Ferdinand Magellan and his circumnavigation of the globe. We might compare Zac’s route to Magellan’s, and we might discuss the similarities between the two journeys. What a cool way to make the social studies content more applicable to kids! I was unable to grab a feed for the actual video of Zac’s interview on CNN, but I did subscribe to the blog that accompanies this featured CNN coverage.
July 25, 2008 at 5:30 am
Hey,
Have you tried Willow web (http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/Radio/). My class listens to quite a few of these before we start podcasting for the year. Last year was my first year with several podcast. We need to improve of the quality, but the kids enjoyed it and using Gcast (if you haven’t heard of this, it’s podcasting from your cell phone…awesome) as a lesson review was great.
Good idea with adding the educational podcasts as Pageflakes too.
Take care,
Mitch
July 27, 2008 at 4:16 pm
I’ve added Radio Willow Web to my Pageflakes pagecast and your school blog to my blog page. Thank you, Mitch!
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