Podcasting stories!

Hello everybody! wlecome to a new entry of our blog!

In this entry I am going to explain you how to easily create a podcat to later on use it in your class.

First things first...What is a podcast?

According to Wikipedia:

A podcast, or generically netcast, is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user's own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player.

How to create a Podcast on SoundCloud?

If you haven’t created a SoundCloud profile, create one. 

Remember to use an active email address. When asked to enter the name you want to display on your profile, use your podcast title, then check your inbox for a confirmation email before proceeding.

Afterwards you will be able to upload your creation, share it with the community and take from it hundreds of songs and podcast avaible on the platform.

You can arrange all these resources in playlist so, so you can have them sorted by theme, topic, style, etc.

We can use podcasts in audio projects such a school radio. Podcasts are highly recommended resources beacuase we can use them in any kind of subject. With these kinds of activities, students can work individually, in pairs or groups. 

This resource will help them to develop their autonomy and responsibility since doing podcasts involves the use of different materials and ICT resources. Students will learn to handle different digital resources and tools by researching and selecting information,  making drafts, writing script, recording audios, licensing, e

Recording Your Podcast.

To record a podcast, you’ll need a microphone plugged into your PC and an audio recording software such as Audacity or as I did just recorded with a mobile phone and then export the audio to my computer. Click here to find out more. 

 I have embedded my Project so you can see it.

Here you got my Profile.

Below you will find my Podcast.

And down here you have the Playlist in which the podcasts will appear.

In my Opinion, there are several prons and cons related to podcasting, but it is necessary to highlight some of the latter to enhance teaching practises.

Podcasting can be used by teachers to provide or receive information from students. However, a disadvantage could be that it is really time consuming. For instance to create this artifact it takes me more less 4 hours, including the brainstorming the script wrting process and finally the recording part. All the time I consumed to create a podcast that last just 1 minute makes me think if this is worthy enough to use in the classroom. 

Furthermore this kind of activities involve technologies that not everty student would have, specially when teaching very young students.
All in all, I believe this could be used with older students but it becomes way more difficult to use it with first or second graders, but that is only my humble opinion.

See you soon!

Teacher Peter.