Podcasting in a Primary School Classroom

The focus of my second assigment is the introducation of Podcasting in a primary school setting to motivate students and improve students learning and outcomes in both reading and oral language.

As part of this process, I have decided to trial it in my own classroom. I am lucky enough to have our resident e-learning expert working alongside me for the term. So she has been able to make suggestions, offer advise and assist with the implementation.

Initially, we discuss this with the students and gave them an opportunity to 'play' with Audacity. The students absolutely love this and it had a huge motivating effect on them. We are trying to make a resource for the school, where students can access stories at home and were teachers can use them in the classroom situation.

The students are now working on practising their stories. They have a pathfinder which will help them with this. They are also thinking of special effects they will be able to layer over the text to add interest to the audience etc.

So far so good, but it is early days. Only being doing it since the beginning of the term and we have had lots of interuptions to our programme with EOTC, cross country, appraisals etc. Hoping to get into it next week and make some good progress.