Podcasting+Lesson+Plans

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=K-3 Grade Level:=

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 * Basic Concept:** Podcasting used in 3rd grade science
 * Grade Level:** 3rd
 * Detail:** Students create a Podcast using their paper-bound Butterfly stories. Students scan their stories and add audio.
 * Benefit of Technology:** Great way for lower level readers and non-readers to feel successful, both have audio and visual to help them with the text. Easy to store and share with others. Can incorporate more than one intelligence.
 * Link(s):** [|The Beautiful Butterfly]
 * Helpful Tips:** Teacher assistance, parent helpers, and/or computer teacher would be most helpful with this sort of project. Lots of time needed, as well.
 * Submitted by:** Kelly Borsick
 * School/Organization:** Nataki Talilbah Schoolhouse of Detroit

=4-6 Grade Level:=

= = Helpful Tips:** Use a free software program like Audacity for editing purposes ; invest in a headset microphone for recording the podcast;make sure that students have a script to use while recording; School/Organization:** **Harding Elementary School, A Detroit Public School**
 * Basic Concept:** Question of the Day PodCast
 * Grade Level:** 5th (but can be used as an activity for students in Grades 3rd -5th)
 * Detail:** My goal was to have students create at least a week's worth of questions to be used with the daily morning announcements. If uploaded to an MP3, then the students will be able to use carry less equipment back and forth to the office; all that would be needed is the mp3 player and the radio (hopefully there will be an auxiliary plug)
 * Benefit of Technology:** Students will learn broadcasting basics (but the teacher's will have to help with editing)
 * Link(s): [[file:EricaMDean_HardingPodcast_SecTier1_June172009.mp3]]
 * Submitted by: Erica M Dean, EDT 502, UM Dearborn, Summer 2009


 * Basic Concept:** Podcasting
 * Grade Level:** 4th
 * Detail:** Students will create a podcast with his/her Habitat Project Report.
 * Benefit of Technology:** Students will be introduced to podcasting - a new creative way of sharing information. Student podcasts will be placed on the class website.
 * Link(s):** An example is attached on my [|Blog].
 * Helpful Tips:** Based on personal experience, I feel that creating a podcast individually, or with partners, is not age appropriate for fourth grade students. I believe it would be more appropriate for the teacher to assist every student with the creation of his/her podcast individually. The teacher will remind the students of the steps necessary to create the podcast as the student executes the task.
 * Submitted by:** Jeff Bouwman.
 * School/Organization:** Weiss Elementary – Gibraltar School District.


 * Basic Concept:** Creating a Podcast
 * Grade Level:** Fourth Grade
 * Detail:** Students will be introduced to creating a podcast. The teacher will help students record their solar system presentation.
 * Benefit of Technology:** This will provide parents/guardians with an opportunity to listen his/her student’s presentation right from the comfort of their own home.
 * Link(s):** Once the lesson is complete, information will be posted on my website – [|Mr. Bouwman’s Homepage].
 * Helpful Tips:** This lesson is an introduction. The teacher will help the students record an audio file utilizing Audacity. The teacher will also convert the audio file into an MP3, and place the file on the classroom’s podcast.
 * Submitted by:** Jeffrey R. Bouwman
 * School/Organization:** Weiss Elementary – Gibraltar School District

[|http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~sjust/edtech/edt502.html]
 * B****asic Concept:** US regions with Podcasting Element
 * Grade Level:** 4-5
 * Detail:** Students research a state within a region and create a Multimedia State Advertising Campaign that includes a podcast.
 * Benefit of Technology:** Creating a real world product and letting the entire world enjoy what they have done.
 * Link(s):** https://mrjust.wikispaces.com/
 * Helpful Tips:** Have well trained helper students or prent volunteers.
 * Submitted by:** Scott Just
 * School/Organization:** Schalm Elementary- Clawson School District


 * Basic Concept:** Podcasting used in Language Arts/Science/Religion
 * Grade Level:** 5
 * Detail:** Students will create podcast covering different techniques of Poetry writing expressing their understanding of scientific concepts in science and relating them to religion as What reminds them of God?
 * Benefit of Technology:** A creative way of using technology to learn and teach to students at all grades
 * Link(s):** [|http://shehla.wikispaces.com]
 * Helpful Tips:** Divide students into groups, so that it is manageable. May be do it at centers, so that all the class is meaningfully busy and the teacher can supervise the recording of the podcast in the beginning. May be gradually they may be able to do it on their own but they must spend good amount of time doing it under their teacher's supervision.
 * Submitted by:** Ghazala Khan
 * School/Organization:** Crescent Academy International


 * Basic Concept:** Podcasting used in Language Arts/Story Writing
 * Grade Level:** 5
 * Detail:** Students created podcast covering six traits of writing -students wrote stories to share on podcasting including one of the character traits in each of their stories
 * Benefit of Technology:** A creative way of using technology to learn and teach to students at lower grades
 * Link(s):** http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/shows/Willowcast16.html
 * Helpful Tips:** If you listen to the pod cast it is wonderfully done so I would imagine that students do need teacher's support and they can simply do the recording on their own. May be gradually they may be able to do it on their own but they must spend good amount of time doing it under their teacher's supervision.
 * Submitted by:** Ghazala Khan
 * School/Organization:** Crescent Academy International


 * Basic Concept:** Podcasting in Science
 * Grade Level:** 6th
 * Detail:** Students will create podcasts about the planet they are assigned to research in their groups.
 * Benefit of Technology:** Students will be exposed to podcasting. It is a creative way of motivating and engaging students to do research. Once students know they can use technology they will be more enthusiastic about the work.
 * Link(s):** An example is on my Classroom Homepage/Wiki
 * Helpful Tips:** Have students check each other's work before the podcast. It will take time to complete this type of an assignment. Having a parent or a paraprofessional there to help will be great to go around with you and assist the students.
 * Submitted by:** Ahlam Taha
 * School/Organization:** Lowrey Middle School - Dearborn School District

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=7-8 Grade Level:=


 * Basic Concept:** Communications and Technology
 * Grade Level:** 7
 * Detail:** After listening to the podcast linked below, students will be required to create their own podcast about an inventor or invention that had a significant impact on technology.
 * Benefit of Technology:** Students will be made aware that there are more ways to get information than simply video as most do now. They will be exposed to an area of the internet that very few in that age group are aware of.
 * Link(s):** [|**http://www.clickcaster.com/items/technology-and-innovation---a-lesson-plan**]
 * Helpful Tips:** Create a secondary lesson that half the class can work on in another area while the other half is recording to help minimize distractions and background noise. Require students to hand in scripts as well as lists of the music and sounds they will be using by specific due dates to keep them on track. This could be included as part of the overall project grade.
 * Submitted by:** Eric Miller
 * School/Organization:** Stout Middle School / Dearborn Public Schools

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 * Basic Concept:** Compare communities from Christian Scriptures letters from the time letters were written to now
 * Grade Level:** 10
 * Detail:** Students will create a podcast (using Audacity) exploring the circumstances behind the writing of one letter from the Christian Scriptures, the themes of that letter, the community today, and how the messages of that letter apply to students today. (Note: This lesson could also be adapted to students in Social Studies examining communities through different time periods) The full lesson plan is here: [|Podcast lesson plan.doc]
 * Benefit of Technology:** Students will be engaged in exploring their selected text, and students will be more engaged with material by listening to peers' podcasts. Podcasts could also be put on a class website to be accessible to parents and other visitors to the site.
 * Link(s):** [|podcast project.mp3] (Sample project - note, this project features a sound file called "street voices" from dobroide on [|http://www.freesound.org]) media type="custom" key="1037885"
 * Helpful Tips:** Allow time to help students use software, and model usage for students. Perhaps allow students in-class time at different points in the project (research, putting together the final product)
 * Submitted by:** Alison Kline-Kator
 * School/Organization:** Mercy High School, Farmington Hills, MI