Learning Labyrinth

dk’s Evoca Podcast

Podcasting truly is easy, engaging and fun once you have experimented with it a few times. My former students engaged in multimedia recording activities throughout the school year and they loved the experiences. Seeing the pride in their eyes and the happiness through their smile assured me that it truly was a valuable learning experience for them…which only encouraged me to create more podcasting and vodcasting activities aligned with our curriculum goals.

My Ideas for Podcasting in the Elementary Classroom:

• Creative Story-telling – record student narrating an original story; great for very young students who have not yet developed reading and writing skills
• Build Reading Fluency – record student reading a story passage and then allow the student to listen and critique their recording
• Foreign Language Lab – students listen to a prompt recorded in a foreign language and then respond to that prompt in the same language of study
• Author Studies
• Reporter for a Day
• Fieldtrip Reflections
• Historic Radio Shows
• Book Talks
• Poetry Readings
• Short Story audio recordings
• Reader’s Theatre – a great way to incorporate video as well, thus creating a Vodcast
• Research/Book Reports
• Oral Reports/Presentations – great for students who have a hard time speaking in front of an audience (like I did in school)
• How-to Videos/Tutorials
• Vocabulary Development
• Expert Interviews
• Class Discussions
• Debate
• Test Study Guides

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