Podcasting in a Jiffy

In A116 today, besides a few snacks, you’ll hear an easy way to podcast all year and implement a highly engaging vocabulary element in your classroom.

• record video on digital camera
• manage one camera for a whole group
• strategies to implement a podcast
• models already in place

Resources:

English: I will highlight this website as part of the PLC training because I feel that Wordia.com is one of the best examples of how to podcast. Wordia is a collection of videos to define words either through acting, interviewing, or examples. Mainly British, the videos are short and memorable. The idea is for students to create their own in the same style.

Social Studies: This educator is my hero. Winner of Missouri’s Teacher of the Year, Eric Langhorst has been the creator of a podcast known as “Speaking of History” for several years. His website and blogs have so many amazing ideas it is just something you must see.

ESOL: Interactive English games,also known as English Media Lab,is the name of the site and it definitely has a long list (just keep scrolling.) However, I found the most useful resource here to be the index of English idioms. In a nutshell, great resource.

Literature: By popular demand, well only Liz, here is Google Lit Trips. Why would an English teacher use Google Earth? - to explore setting or for author studies. Here is the perfect resource to get you started and loads of kmz files. These are the files you can load into Google Earth and take a trip. Wonderful lessons here as well.

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