Kolb, Liz (2008, September/October). Enhanced podcasts: A new twist on an old tool. Learning and Leading with Technology, 36 No. 2, Retrieved April 8, 2009, from
http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/L_L.htm
Liz Kolb suggests some fun projects students can do while spicing up their podcasts with text and images with a simple tools like PowerPoint. She includes a helpful step-by-step guide for creating the enhanced podcasts with PowerPoint. The following are some of her suggestions for enhanced podcasts in various subjects areas:
Social Studies
Students could create a TV show with interviews of historical figures. The typical radio podcast is transformed into a TV show with the inclusion of images, charts/graphs, text, and data, thus an “enhanced” podcast.
Literacy Projects
Instead of merely recording and performing their Poetry slams, appropriate graphic art and images are included to enhance the meaning and visual experience of the poem. Through PowerPoint, students can also create digital storybooks with narration, slides, music and other sound effects.
Science projects
In a Biology class students might create a slide show about life cycles and then provide narration. In Chemistry it could be a chemical reaction that is graphically portrayed with voice over explanations.
Math
An enhanced math podcast could be a visual description of an equation with narration or the creation of graphs and charts with recorded analysis along the way.
Foreign Language Projects
A digital travel postcard podcast could have narration of interesting places along with images and music or other audio. Vocabulary flash cards could also be created with sound and images.
Enhanced Photo Albums
An enhanced pod cast here would mean a narrated video photo album of pictures from perhaps a classroom activity, field trip, yearbook or other activity.
How could enhanced podcasts help create parental support for the students education?
I thought Kolb’s idea of an “end of week review” of what the student had learned that could be sent to parents was very interesting. It could include pictures of the learning experiences from the week and be narrated by various students. Also if the pod cast were uploaded to the class website then parents could see what students were learning and help them with review and practice.
What issues should teachers be aware of when creating enhanced
podcasts?
Kolb had a good suggestion of posting podcasts on protected websites or intranet sites in order to avoid copyright issues and to protect the student’s privacy, identity, and work that has their names on it. This is a good opportunity to discuss copyright issues with the students and help them understand how to comply.
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