Lesson Title: Podcasting around the zoo
Type of web Tool: Video Podcast
SOL and Secondary Objectives Related to the Lesson: Learn the process of creating an audio and video podcast, learn animal facts and behaviors
Description of Lesson: The students will create a zoo video tour of the local zoo. They will each pick one animal they wish to create a podcast for. They will then do a bit of research on that animal from the class wiki that has been created for this project. They will submit an outline on what they plan to discuss in their podcast. This is when revisions will be made. At that point, we will take a field trip to the zoo and have the students break into two groups. Each group will take turns recording and hosting a podcast. They will give the animal name, location in the zoo, general statistics for the animal species and a bit about a behavior they see the animal doing at the time. Once all of the podcasts are completed, the students will bring the videos back to the classroom and they will be taught how to edit them properly. We will then upload each video to our class blog. Other students will then have a chance to comment through the blog. Students will be graded on the content and video editing of their own podcast.
Lesson Title: Cranes: Their Biology, husbandry and Conservation Podcasted!
Type of web Tool: Audio Podcast
SOL and Secondary Objectives Related to the Lesson: Learn the proper techniques of audio podcasting. Learn about crane behavior, biology and conservation.
Description of Lesson: For our bird behavior section in the biology class, each student will take a section of the book, "Cranes: Their Biology, Husbandry, and Conservation" and create an audio podcast from that. The students will be asked to read their chapters and write a 5 minute summary about what they learned on their particular topic. At this point, the students will create an outline on what they will be discussing in their podcast. We will then take each student and create an audio podcast for that chapter. Once all chapters are completed, they will share their podcast with the class and post it to our blog. We will also submit the podcast to the Internation Crane Foundation for them to use as they wish.
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These are fantastic ideas! Both ideas fit the podcast tool perfectly. Often, museums will have audio presentations at different exhibits, but the feature that sets podcasts apart from plain audio presentations are the episodic nature, the use of a common "hear and feel" through the use of an overall title of the 'program', the presence of an episode title, and a common intro and outro--music that introduces the feel of the program.
ReplyDeleteBoth of your ideas work well with the podcast idea.
One important aspect of creating podcasts is attention to DEAPR. Do you happen to remember this concept way back when in the Teaching with Multimedia/Hypermedia course OR in the Desktop Publishing course? (hmmmm, I'm going to have to go back to check to see if you did either of these courses!). In any case, DEAPR is Design, Encode, Assemble, Publish and Revise.
ReplyDeleteThe design phase for podcasts might consist of brainstorming ideas and researching ideas,then making decisions about Purpose, Format, Time, and Audience. It also could involve 'pitching' the idea to colleagues or classmates as an evaluation point. (encoding) This can be done in the form of a treatment, which is an authentic activity used in ad agencies, radio programs, etc. Next, a written script can be presented for approval.
All of this is recorded and then assembled in the editing tool (audacity), published to the author for self-evaluation, revised, then published for a more general audience.
If you think of the old Writing Process that we learned in English class, DEAPR is a modern version of it, necessary because the new tools require something more than what the Writing Process has to offer.
What would you add to these plans in order to attend to DEAPR?