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Digital Storytelling

Session Goals: Teachers will discover the benefits of using podcast for personal and professional learning, delivering information to students, and facilitating student-created publications.

Objective:  Teachers will learn to search for podcasts, use Audacity to create podcasts, upload them to Posterous, and have a loose gameplan for how they will use this in their classroom and in coaching.

What it isn't:  An extensive training that is going to let you refine and tune your podcast.  It is an overview and opportunity for practice.

Introduction:  Podcasting in Plain English from CommonCraft.com

Introductions:  Name Tents

·       Grade level and subject area you teach

·       Podcasts you listen to or would like to hunt down & type of device you own (or are thinking about getting)?

·       How would like to use podcasts with students?

·       Goals to do with technology integration

Podcast Examples:

Scientific American 60 Second Science

PD Podcasts (in my iTunes - about Photoshop, student responders, Promethean, best practices, etc)

Radio Willow Web (made by kids)

Mr. Coley's StudyCast (by a teacher for his students)

University of Southern Florida (everyone goes into iTunes)

Searching for Podcasts:  iTunes - Personal, Professional, Classroom use

·       Audio, Video, Text & Info

·       Personal Interest

·       Professional development & tutorials

·       University of Southern Florida (download text)

·       iTunes U

·       DanOSongs (search Creative Commons Music) -->Download for use in mixing

How would we use Podcasts? *

Radio WillowWeb Planning Guide.pdf (Handout)

What Makes a Good Podcast.pdf

Podcast Script.doc

podcastingtips.pdf

Podcasting for Teachers and Students.pdf

Walk & Talk – partner up and walk the outside of the building to discuss ideas for using them personally/professionally/with Kids

Write them on chart paper

Audaciousness:  Learning the Tool **

1.    Recording a Voice Sample  (The Pizza)

1. Record button
2. I tool (selection tool) – play spacebar, highlight, delete
3. Envelope tool – increase volume, click to make node, shift from there
4. Move to end of selection & record again
5. Name Track
6. Delete Track

Download these for mixing with your podcast:  Sounds2.zip    Sound Files.zip

2.    Record “This week in class in vocab theater”

1. Short segments – move them up
2. Insert music beginning, between, end
3. Add silence
4. Review all buttons & show split tracks

Audaciousness:  Creation Time & Practice Practice Practice!

1.    Return to chart paper with ideas for using

2.    Share what is on chart paper – teachers add to their name tag

3.    Look at suggestions on wiki & PBS link

1. PBS Question generator  à interview
2. Your experience with a technology you would like other teachers to try.

4.    Review checklists and guide lines

5.    Begin writing script with Storyboard

Posting your Podcast to Posterous

Closure:  What can you do to make it happen?

·       Roles of students

·       Scheduling recordings

·       Who can do the uploading?

·       Equipment and space you need?

*  Project Ideas (from Learning and Leading with Technology Sept/Oct 2008)

Social Studies - a radio broadcast that "goes back in time" to cover a time period and its arts, etertainment, politics, culture, innovation, news, etc

Literacy Projects - Poetry Slams, reading narratives or editorials, book reviews, book trailers

Science - explaining a process or having a conversation about a process and what it is like in real life; news report from inside a system

Math - discuss theory and share ideas for tricks for remembering steps; ah-ha moments when a proof clicked and they "got it."

Foreign Language - travel podcast or digital postcard; re-teach from a student's perspective

Ideas for Podcasts (from Tony Vincent, Radio WillowWeb www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio)

• Did you know? Interesting Fact turned into a question
• Do it Differently    Rule or Situation you want to change. Why, How?
• Holiday or Culture Spotlight
• Intersting Interview
• Bad Joke, Good Joke
• Sensational Segment
• Poetry or Proverb Corner
• Riddle
• In class…
• Similes to make you smile
• Proverb
• Vocabulary Theater
• Wonderful Web Site

Interviewing Helpers

Question Generator from Story Corps

Story Corp's Great Questions List

** Audacity-How To Video  

Recording, Mixing and Special Effects, Exporting (i.e. connecting to LAME and Audacity to make MP3s)

Audacity Manual online: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/

Audacity Tutorial: http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/audacity-tutorial.html

Audacity Wiki: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/