Podcast Ideas
Students can use podcasts to:
- Teach other students about podcasting
- Add audio to blogs and wikis and webpages
- Create audio tours of the library media center
- Create audio tours of the school
- Create audio tours of community attractions and historical sites
- Create news programs and announcements
- Record book reviews
- Provide book talks
- Record and deliver story-hours
- Record and hear book reviews by peers
- Create a school orientation for students, teachers and parents--available 24/7
- Provide reading practice for older students by recording stories and chapters for younger students
- Provide listening practice for students
- Create audio versions of handouts and information online from text format
- Teach audio editing
- Collaborate with teachers to produce audio recordings on a topic or for a report
- Explain how to use online databases
- Motivate students and teachers with upbeat podcasts on school events
- Record student's reading for review by self and parents
- Create "radio" shows on current events, sports, special school events, etc.
- Record interviews with peers, community members, authors, and experts
- Create commercials and audio "trailers" for books or movies
- Translate instruction and directions into other languages for students and/or parents who speak a language other than English
- Record community history, folklore,
- Provide audio training.