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Ages 12-20 Podcasting at school
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Jul 21, 2009 10:42 PDT
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BASIC PROJECT INFORMATION
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PROJECT TITLE:
-- Podcasting at school
PROJECT BEGIN and END DATES:
-- 3/20/09 to 1/01/10
NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS:
-- 10
AGE RANGE:
-- 12 to 20 years
TARGET AUDIENCE:
-- Anyone
PROJECT SUMMARY:
-- Different school subjects are presented as podcast, radio
broadcasting episodes. Teacher lessons or the skull sessions among the
students are recorded thanks to appropriate radio equipment (pc, mixer,
headphones, microphone) and specific software, then they are published
on the web through an audio-hosting.
In this project Chocolat 3b they compared some of the finest poems of
Italian literature with singer song writer songs.
Thanks to this work group the students learned about the podcast world
and its history. Then they told in a simple way the podcast
international experiences carried out by other schools and those
experienced by TIC specialists.
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PROJECT DETAILS
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PROJECT LEVEL:
-- Basic Project
CURRICULUM AREAS:
-- Language; Technology
TECHNOLOGIES USED:
-- Postal Mail; Text: stories, essays, letters; Audio: files, clips,
CDs, tapes; Video: files, clips, CDs, tapes; Web-published; Blogs
COLLABORATION STYLES:
-- Electronic Appearance or Q & A; Parallel Problem Solving;
Electronic Publishing
FULL PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
-- The podcasting idea was born to combine traditional teaching
methods with new technologies, because nowadays young people have a
natural inclination towards the various forms of media.
Using this new didactic tools reawakens the students learning interest,
at the same time they learn how to use in a critical way media and
technology.
The project can be carried out in the computer schoolroom or in a
recording room for two hours per week.
The main tools used are: pc, mixer, headphones, microphone, specific
software and an audio-hosting.
The episodes can be recorded at school, while the teaching material
collecting can be done at home. Teachers and students can daily keep in
touch and compare ideas, guidelines or to make a report of the job done
thanks to messenger.
OBJECTIVES:
-- Subject goals for Italian language:
1) The students train Italian language, written and oral, and its use.
2) They constantly compare the writing art and grammar because they have
to transform the text into radio broadcasting dialogues;
3) They improve their diction (dialect inflection can?t be heard in a
radio). They also train their voice tone and learn how to use pauses to
give more sense to the subject and speech.
Emotional and relational goals:
1) The students learn how to work in group, interact with each other and
handle the different situation/group of work.
2) They learn how to carry on a project, to meet deadlinesetc;
3) They learn how to handle their emotionality, at the same time they
learn how to use self-control at school.
4) The teacher involved in the project can put himself through the
hoops;
5) The students reawaken their interest towards learning in general
because of their huge inclination towards technology;
6) They learn how to use in a positive and critical way media and
technology.
Computer studies goals:
1) The students learn how to use specific tools such as mixer,
microphone, recording techniques and handling audio files;
2) They learn how to create a radio broadcast;
3) They learn how to search something on the web; to take out a podcast
subscription; to create a podcast becoming multimedia contents authors
and editors;
Interdisciplinary or indirect goals:
1) Use of the English language, because this is the language used on
the web and for some software;
2) Cooperation with music teacher because podcast episodes need musical
accompaniment.
PROJECT URL:
-- http://chocolat3b.podomatic.com/
PROJECT SPONSOR:
-- not sponsorized
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PROJECT REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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REGISTRATION DATES:
-- 7/10/09 to 12/31/09
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS:
-- Contact coordinator:
luca.pier-@libero.it
3387594929
PROJECT EMAIL ADDRESS:
-- mailto:luca.pier-@libero.it
PROJECT REGISTRATION URL:
-- http://chocolat3b.podomatic.com/
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PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT POSTED BY:
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-- Luca Piergiovanni mailto:luca.pier-@libero.it (Teacher
Middle School (ages 11-14))
-- Scuola Media "G. Rodari" - Faloppio (CO)
-- Como, Como, Italy
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