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Using Podcasts to Amplify Student Voices Nels Tooker and Beth Brown Newington Public School Newington, NH twitter: @nelstooker @Tooker5and6 Housekeeping This presentation and links to every podcast in it are on the CMTC website under

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Using Podcasts to Amplify Student Voices

Nels Tooker and Beth Brown
 Newington Public School Newington, NH twitter: @nelstooker @Tooker5and6

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Housekeeping

  • This presentation and links to every podcast in it are on

the CMTC website under our session.

This is primarily an audio presntation.

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Part 1: Listening to Podcasts

  • Why listen to podcasts in the classroom?
  • How to use podcast listening with your class.
  • Suggested podcasts for students and adults.
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Why listen to podcasts?

  • deep, less over-stimulating
  • unique voices outside our own experiences
  • less “Charlie Brown” teacher voice
  • growing form of media
  • 12 million Americans listened for the first time last year.
  • connect with podcast experts like “Only A

Game” (sample)

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Podcast Listening

  • Sketchnotes: Only a Game sample
  • Prepare to sketch note:
  • Practice drawing as a note taking tool
  • Pictionary!
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Podcast Listening

  • Try a sketch note: The Memory Palace
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Podcast Listening

  • Supplement Material: Stuff You Missed In History Class
  • Double agent James Armistead
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Podcast Listening

  • Analyze Multiple Sources: Revisionist History
  • Boston Tea Party (colonial Tony)
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Podcast Listening

  • Introduce a topic: Radiolab
  • Forest ecosystem
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Podcast Listening

  • Debate about a Topic: Pickle
  • Should I tell?
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Podcast Listening

  • Teaching Social Curriculum:
  • Story Pirates (clicking clams)
  • Circle Round
  • Stories
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Podcast Listening

  • Research to follow a curiosity: But Why?
  • Jellyfish questions
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Suggested Podcasts

  • Younger students:
  • Wow in the World
  • Brains On!
  • Peace Out
  • Tumble
  • Middle Grade/ High School:
  • Hidden Brain
  • 99% Invisible
  • Storycorps
  • Freakonomics Radio
  • Ted Radio Hour
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Suggested Podcasts

  • Podcasts about Education:
  • The Creative Classroom
  • Ted talks
  • Truth for Teachers
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Suggested Podcasts

  • Podcasts for Adults:
  • Ear Hustle
  • Serial
  • S-Town
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Part 2: Creating Podcasts

  • Benefits of amplifying student voices.
  • Ideas to crank up the creativity volume.
  • Suggested methods & best practices.
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Why create podcasts?

  • improve critical speaking & listening skills
  • real world writing, editing, & collaborating
  • vehicle for creative expression
  • authentic global audience
  • communicate with parents
  • SO … MUCH … FUN!
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  • Student led, multiple segments
  • 15-20 minutes, 7 episodes last year
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Podcast Creation

  • Learning recap or field trip review
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Podcast Creation

  • Review Something: The Anthropocene Reviewed
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Podcast Creation

  • Book Reviews
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Podcast Creation

  • Interview an expert: Talking with Thunderbirds
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Podcast Creation

  • Interview a family member then write a Historical Fiction

piece

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Podcast Creation

  • Creative writing practice: fake ads
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Podcast Creation

  • Presentation tool for teachers or students
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Suggestions & Best Practices

  • Tools:
  • Garage Band (mac)
  • Anchor
  • Audacity
  • Voice Memos on iPad
  • iMovie (mac)
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Suggestions & Best Practices

Steps to create a podcast:

  • 1. Listen, research, ask questions, plan
  • 2. Write
  • 3. Record
  • 4. Edit
  • 5. Publish using Anchor, Soundcloud, SeeSaw or other

platform

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Suggestions & Best Practices

  • TIPS:
  • write before recording
  • listen and revise
  • getting a microphone = worth it
  • get familiar with tools, teach, explore, then go
  • protect student data
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Sources & Links

Please check the document for this session on the CMTC website for links to every podcast in this presentation.

Anchor

https://anchor.fm/ The easiest way to make a podcast. Everything you need, 100% free.

Audacity

https://www.audacityteam.org Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software, available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and

  • ther Unix-like operating systems.

Soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/ As the world’s largest music and audio platform, SoundCloud lets people discover and enjoy the greatest selection of music from the most diverse creator community on earth. Since launching in 2008, the platform has become renowned for its unique content and features, including the ability to share music and connect directly with artists, as well as unearth breakthrough tracks, raw demos, podcasts and more.

Link to podcast publishers: https://www.adamenfroy.com/podcast-hosting Statistics about podcast listening: https://www.convinceandconvert.com/podcast- research/the-13-critical-podcast-statistics-of-2018/