345mon's Podcast

The purpose of this assignment is to describe the domeroom I the rotunda and lay out the details of it so visitors will be enticed to come visit this historic site in the future. The real purpose of this podcast is to put students in the mindset of a historian looking back in time in order to be able to connect the traditions of the past to the workings of today. This way students can accurately piece together how the past connnects to the present and will connect to the future. This assignment is also so that students can be engaged and excited about the subject because if they are not then people will not want to come on the tour.

Passive Voice

For this assignment I had my students create a podcast of a monologue from a Shakespeare play that we would be reading in class. While creating the podcast, I asked them to concentrate on their voice, and how the emotion behind their voice can be used to bring the scene to life for their readers. By using a podcast instead of performing the monologue in front of class, students are forced to truly use their voice as a tool, which is especially useful when studying drama. This assignment was designed for a ninth or tenth grade English class.

Dome Room

This Podcast features a student debate about President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Half the class will present the pro arguments and the other half of the class will present the con arguments. After everyone has recorded their arguments, each student will listen to the Podcast for homework and will be responsible for writing a journal response. In this response, students should pick a side and justify why they think they are right. This lesson corresponds with Virginia SOL VUS.10b.

Week Nine Homework Assignment for EDLF 345. Podcast consists of a brief excerpt of what would be an actual assignment. The hypothetical teacher states the instructions for the assignment, and then hypothetical student begins to complete the assignment.

Assignment: Students are to place themselves into the shoes of American Revolutionaries - but with a contemporary twist. They are to make a 'declaration' of their own concerning a club or activity that they are currently involved in. They are then to comment on how their declaration relates to the actual Declaration of Independence.

This is a small piece of a project that would be done in an American history class. The end result would be a 1920s radio show - in this podcast I created one commercial for a radio show.

Students are assigned to create a podcast, playing a particular US president and describe their character, background, and important accomplishments. The assignment is meant for US History students in high school so they can practice podcasts but also learn the important basics about the various presidents they are learning about.

In this podcast, I ask students to choose one of the Spanish poems we have been reading in class and recite it as a podcast, focusing on meaning and emphasis as well as good pronunciation in Spanish. This will be a good exercise in getting comfortable with speaking Spanish, while becoming more familiar with a concrete piece of literature and history. In later assignments, students will be asked to analyze the poem that they make into a podcast.

I have the student pick one of Thomas Jefferson's goals for America and explain it. I chose his plan to provide universal education to all citizens.

This is an assignment for a 10th grade English students. Students are to record five SAT vocabulary words, their parts of speech, their definitions, an original sentence using the word, and a fun way to help classmates remember the word. After the class has completed this assignment, students can upload the mp3 files to their ipods, and use the project as a resource to study for the SAT.

This podcasting episode is designed for students in an intermediate to upper level spanish class (Spanish II-IV). The assignment is for students to research a festival of spain and provide a short spotlight radio show of their focused festival studied. The radio shows would then be compiled to one show as a review resource for students to have when studying the culture and history of Spain. Their assignment will be to tell the specific information related to the festival (ex: dates, location, activities) and highlight what makes this festival important to spanish culture.

English:
A "student" reads original poetry so that other students can access it at home. That way they can come to class prepared to discuss and give feedback about each other's work.

This assignment is for an 8th grade English class. It requires students to read two cinquain poems out loud with the feeling and emotion that they want to convey to their audience. Afterwards I would ask them to talk about what aspects of each of their poems they found to be strong, as well as which aspects they think might need improving. Besides giving them a new sense of pride in their work, the podcast requires them to put thought into how they want it read to an audience. It also gives students an opportunity to think out loud and discuss how they would improve their poetry.

This is a modification of the Our City podcast that we heard on the WillowWeb sample podcast. However, instead of talking about the city where the students live, they will talk about the Representative that represents the Congressional district in which they live. Students would write a brief biography of the Representative and record their voices while reading it.

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