Storytelling with Podcasts

This is an assignment for an Introduction to Media course. The activity includes students comparing and contrasting historic radio productions and contemporary podcasts. Students then choose their own short story, essay, poem, etc. that is approximately 200-300 words and/or under 5 minutes when read aloud. Students create a transcript of their story selection and create an audio recording on Padlet.com, a free media platform. Students then share their readings with classmates, listen to each other's recordings and discuss several creative attributes of their audio recordings.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Therese Woozley

Creating a Persuasive Podcast

Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Podcasts in the Elementary Classroom: Tools for Teachers and Students

This article provides an overview of podcasts and suggestions for using podcasts in the elementary classroom.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Stephanie Chasteen

AR SPELL Podcasting in the ELL Classroom

Podcasting can be a great way to get students, parents, and community members involved with classroom activities and information. ELL students can use podcasting as a way to demonstrate the skills they are developing as well as provide a way to reach other ELL students who may be encountering similar (difficulties).

Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lecture

Author: David Henderson

Parent Trapped Podcast

A weekly parenting podcast from Common Sense Media. Each week, host Ann Marie Baldonado checks in with authors, educators, and celebrities to bring you real-world stories and tips

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Barbara Soots

Podcasts and Podcasting for ESL Students

This site allows teachers to find supplemental listening materials for academic themes. Here you will find links to podcast episodes and corresponding worksheets. Approximate CEFR Levels have been included for each podcast episode and its corresponding tasks. Teachers are welcome to download worksheets and use them as is or adapt them for specific class needs or objectives.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment

Author: Sara Schroeder

Podcasting Social Work • A podcast on Anchor

Podcasting Social Work is a platform for educators, learners, social workers, and activists to share your stories, knowledge and skills to empower communities and transform lives. The podcast episodes are focusing on various topics such as social, economic, cultural, and environment issues; and various social work practices to address poverty, marginalization and injustice across the world. Moreover, podcast episodes also focusing on teaching pedagogy, reflective practice, global citizenship, and social justice themes. "Podcasting Social Work" by Mahbub Hasan is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Material Type: Case Study, Interactive, Lecture, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Mahbub Hasan

K-12 Educator Podcasts

Deepen your knowledge and improve your practice with these podcasts produced with K-12 educators in mind. 

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Barbara Soots

Creating Podcasts | Media Arts Toolkit

As an English/digital media teacher at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, Jason Behler has found that his students become deeply engaged when creating their own podcasts, especially because he allows them great freedom in selecting their own genre and content. His students develop skills in collaboration and time management as well as technical and communication skills. Podcasting does not need to be confined to a class in digital media, and it does not require expensive equipment. Podcasting can be integrated into any content area to add spark to your lessons.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

The Super Secret Hive Podcast

An amazing musical and educational adventure podcast for the whole family! Original songs and stories by Julie Frost and Mike Dombrow.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Functions of Money

Money has taken many forms through the ages: shells, wheels, beads and even cows. All forms, though, have always had three things in common. Find out what in this eight-minute podcast. You will also learn how commodity money differs from representative money and how both differ from today's fiat money.

Material Type: Lecture

SERIAL EPISODE 1

This 2 week lesson incorporates the CCSS ELA Standards using the Serial podcast, an engaging murder mystery podcast.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Natalie Krusemeier

MOOCs and Open Educational Resources: A Handbook for Educators

MOOCs and Open Educational Resources: A Handbook for Educators is being made available for university faculty, educators, and educational producers involved in producing online courses. The guide is a step-by-step manual to how to produce and distribute educational video content under the freest of licenses, with an emphasis on Creative Commons. It is hoped that some utility may be found in its pages by all kinds of readers, whether one is a staff videographer or a chaired senior faculty member or a freelance video editor, or in any position around and in between.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Peter B. Kaufmann

Digital Media: Learn to Use Audacity to Create Audio Recordings

Audio recording is an important component of digital media productions. In this lesson students will make a short recording to learn the basics of Audacity, a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software, available for Windows, macOS/OS X and Unix-like operating systems.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan

Author: Lisa Fox

Learning Audacity - Recording and Editing Basics

This OER is meant to teach those new to Audacity and audio editing the basic skills of the open-source software, as well as provide some basic narration tips.Though an introduction, this resource will allow those interested in podcasting, audio editing, video making, music creation, and more to apply these skills to larger projects.No required knowledge of Audacity or audio editing skills required. Though skills in an operating system (Windows, OSX, Linux) is highly reccomended.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Module

Author: David McNulty

The Public Domain Song Anthology

The Public Domain Song Anthology by David Berger and Chuck Israels is a collection of 348 popular songs with modern and traditional harmonization for both study and performance. This open educational resource was curated by two leading jazz repertory experts and consists of songs in the US public domain. This anthology is the first of its kind and is free for students and performers to use, adapt, remix, and share. The songs, many of which are at risk of being forgotten, are free of copyright restrictions and are available in multiple formats to promote greater usage and dissemination.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Primary Source

Authors: Chuck Israels, David Berger

Beachfront B-Roll

A place to download (for free!) unique HD stock video footage and animated backgrounds for any production or educational purpose. All clips in the library are completely free to use and are a simple "right click save" to download.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration

Producing Educational Videos

Production of Educational Videos is an introduction to technical communication that is situated in the production of educational videos; the assignments are all focused on the production of videos that teach some aspect of MIT's first-year core curriculum. The objective of these assignments is improvement in both communication ability and communication habits; these improvements are effected by providing participants with instruction, practice, feedback, and the opportunity for reflection. In addition to improvements in communication skills, improvement is expected in students' attitude towards writing, oral presentations, and collaboration; as the semester progresses, students should feel confident of their ability to write, present, and collaborate.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: David Custer, Graham Gordon Ramsay

Shooting Video--Camera Use, Angles, and Movement

Students will learn how to distinguish different video shots, angles, and movements by watching a professionally created movie trailer. Locate a movie trailer of your choice and convert it into a movie file that can be uploaded into a video editing software, such as iMovie. Students will then detach the audio so it is not a distraction while working during class. The next step will be to locate the different camera uses, angles, and movements as listed in the PowerPoint. Once the shots are located, students will split the video and use a freeze frame with on-screen text to key the name of the shot. An example would be "long shot with bird's eye view." Students should locate at least three examples for each of the camera uses, angles, and movements. Once done, the students will export their movie and submit for grading.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan

Author: Dawn Friedrich

Image Composition

In this assignment, students learn how to identify and perform basic shot types. These shots are the building blocks for any media project. Students will go out and film examples of each of the basic shots. Students will use cameras on their cell phones and individually. Students will spend approximately 1 hour gathering images and uploading the videos to the class Powerpoint project.

Material Type: Module

Authors: Erin Barney, Hans Aagard, Michael Kohntopp