I'm excited by the prospect of posting podcasts for students to practice awareness of breath and body and how these impact their use of projection of voice and character onstage! I've just begun posting audio podcasts and will progress onto video as soon as I overcome file format and storage issues. I am hopeful that the Teacher Tube solution proposed by PBWiki and our own Worth Weller's suggestion of a magical Prism converter will do the trick! You can see the skeleton of drama podcasts on my Wiki. I think it's fabulous that motivated students can download the exercises that will be the foundation of maintaining their vocal instrument and assist them in mentally and physically preparing for any audition or performance situation.
I have many ideas for English podcasts. Nationally syndicated podcasts such as The Writer's Almanac and Grammar Girl or the blogger Sentence Sleuth could be regular guests of our class room. Classic clips from The United States of Poetry, Billy Collins Action Poetry, The National Bookfest, LivePoetsDotCom and The Favorite Poem Project can inspire our own critical reading/viewing experiences. Student models of their own electric poetry interpretations or their own favorite poem projects can be published via podcast.
High school students could partner with younger reading buddies in an elementary school class and both sets of students could produce podcast readings for one another. Likewise language learners could perform for one another or model fluency in brief audio or video podcast productions. I think the more we offer this as a platform for exchange of ideas, the more creative connections will be made in our community. Cheers to podcasting!
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Great ideas for a creative classroom!!! I really like your partnering with reading buddies idea.
ReplyDeleteI like your idea about partnering with buddies as well. Students could debate a topic through a podcast and send their responses back and forth. I look forward to looking at the different podcast you have found they look very good.
ReplyDeleteI also like the idea of reading buddies. My students would love this. They are second graders and would be so excited to have middle or high school students sending podcasts to them. This would also get them working extra hard and taking pride in their reading!
ReplyDeleteQuestion, though. You spoke about moving on to video podcasting and using that. How do you plan to use that? Won't that be a safety/security issue for students?
Thanks for your feedback Vanessa, Chris and Abby. To respond to your concern about video, I think if it's run through Teacher Tube and if students use screen names, there really isn't any more of a security issue than any of the other technology we're using. I envision a kind of exchange similar to the old penpals with the added benefit of visual enhancement. Obviously, the teacher and students must remain vigilant and be on their best digital citizen behavior. The opportunity for learning is great here, especially in the language classroom where paralinguistic cues can be better perceived with both the audio and visual available simultaneously.
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