Podcasting

=Podcasting in the //Traveling the World// lesson plan =

Podcasting is a great way to engage students in learning. For the Traveling the World lesson plan, students will create a Podcast to tell the class about the places they visited during their second destination. Podcasting is introduced in steps #8 and 10 of the lesson plan.

Here is how you can create a Podcast using an iMAC and Audacity (Audacity is also compatible with Windows): 1. Open up Audacity. If you don't have the program, you can download it off the internet for free. 2. Make sure the recording device is set to built in microphone if that is what you are using. 3. Click on the Red button with the circle on it ("record"). 4. Say what you want to say! 5. Click the button with the yellow square on it to finish your recording ("stop"). 6. If you don't like what you recorded, you can start over by clicking on the "x" next to the Audio Trac tab. 7. You can include music in your Audacity recording by going to freeplaymusic.com 8. Find a music file you would like to use. 9. Save the file as an .mp3 to your desktop. 10. Go back to Audacity and click on "Project" and "Import Audio" 11. Find your saved audio file and click open. 12. You can adjust the volume level of your music clip by click on the "envelope tool button". 13. You can also move your music or speech clip by click on the "time shift tool button". By moving around your music or speech clip, you can chose to have music, then speech, speech then music, or music/speech/music.
 * Click on the Audacity Tab on your upper task bar.
 * Click Preferences
 * Click Audio I/O
 * Select Built-in Microphone beneath Recording Device

Here is a sample of an Audacity file:

media type="file" key="podcast.wav" width="300" height="50"

Here is the rubric for the podcasting project:

Teachers are using Podcasts in the the classroom everyday. Some classroom uses may include: 1. Having students create a Podcast on what they are learning in class 2. Having a teacher created Podcast to give/review instructions 3. Compiling a variety of Podcasts to go along with a school-wide project

Here are some articles that further discuss how teacher's are using or can use Podcasts in today's classroom:

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http://www.bardwilliams.com/pdf_files/Teacher_Mag_Classroom_Podcasting_101.pdf ======