This makes the whole experience more interactive and gives the club a better understanding of their target audience.Īs a reward for their hard work and dedication, the children were given a tour of the local community radio station, Radio Jackie. We’ve also put up a Podcast mailbox for the entire school to give their comments and suggestions to the club. We’ve started uploading the podcasts onto our school website, giving the children ownership of their work and an opportunity to showcase it to their friends and families. The children have dived in head-on and are eager to learn and produce more. The success of podcasting at St Mark’s Primary has been immense. That means they can be produced significantly faster, at around two days. The advantage of keeping it short is that it focuses on just one topic, as opposed to exploring several different areas. So far we’ve only produced one short podcast, at just under five minutes. This further develops their IT, listening and fine motor skills. The final stage is sound editing in Audacity. The recording of various segments follows, with a great deal of spoken language skills coming into play. The next club session is dedicated to read-throughs which helps with their reading skills and finalising the order of segments as well as last minute amendments. I discovered that choosing the right jingle, sound effects and copyright-free music are some of the most popular activities at this stage. They spend their breaks and lunchtime researching, scripting and drafting, all the time developing their writing, IT and teamworking skills. It’s then that you see their passion and eagerness. The children, split into smaller groups of two and three, are assigned segments. Various ideas are discussed and decisions made about the content of the podcast. We meet once a week, 45 minutes before the school starts. It’s also quicker to produce, so can be more spontaneous and reactive to what’s happening at the time. The second allowed for the listener’s short attention span (especially primary school age children 7-11 year olds).
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The first option required an understanding of how to make individual segments flow one into another (from news into sports, and then into book reviews, etc.) Hoping to expose the children to various formats, two of our podcasts are what I’d call ‘feature-length’, (around 30 minutes long) with the other being just under five minutes.
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Recording directly into a laptop isn’t exactly the most portable option, but adding the H2N accessory pack turned the device into a truly professional microphone, making the children even more eager. The school invested in a Zoom H2N, which not only vastly improves the sound quality of the podcasts but also allows the children to make field recordings. We’ve since produced three more podcasts and are currently working on the next one. Their enthusiasm, hard work and dedication to producing each and every podcast are surpassing all my expectations. The Podcast club was soon set up, the beginning of a very creative and stimulating journey. Technically, it left a lot to be desire but the children caught the podcasting bug. Find out more » Catching the ‘Podcasting Bug’ Learn how podcasting in education can increase accessibility and encourage engagement. Podcasting in Education: What Are the Benefits?
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