Just before the holiday break, some of the English II classes stopped by the library to participate in a podcast lesson and activity. Students will be creating podcasts for an upcoming project, so this day's work served as an introduction.
The introduction Slides were based on an earlier presentation created by our AEA digital learning consultant Cathy Hines. After working on a middle school podcast unit together, Cathy again offered great suggestions about how to present podcasting to high school students. Another great resource was Jeff Glade, an AEA instructional technology consultant with a fantastic site devoted to podcasts. With Cathy's guidance and Jeff's resources, the English II podcasting lesson and activity came together. Many thanks!
Throughout the introduction, students offered talking points related to their own podcast listening and what they already knew about podcasts, like differences between YouTubers and podcasters.
Students also had the chance to listen to a podcast and complete together a note-taking/main idea Slide as seen on Jeff Glade's website. As an activity to complete in class, students listened to the prologue and Act I of a podcast called "Babysitting" from This American Life. As we listened, we paused at times to consider main ideas and images or text that would represent what we were hearing. Both classes' Slides are below:
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