Podcasting in Education: Recent Episodes
Luke Agosta
This episode will explain and provide you with resources that you can use to cheaply yet effectively create your own podcasts for your students.
Show Notes:
Transcript and Bibliography
Audacity: a free audio recording and editing software for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
GarageBand: a free audio recording and editing software for Macintosh.
Voice Memos: a free audio recording app by Apple for iOS devices.
Article: 10 best voice recorder apps for Android!
Some of them are free.
Pat Flynn’s video tutorials for making podcasts in
- Audacity, and
- GarageBand.
5 STEPS to Improve Your VOICEOVER in Audacity
This video tutorial explains techniques to help make your voiceover sound more professional in Audacity, even without all the fancy equipment.
Bonus video not mentioned in the audio:
If you want to automate the deletion of long silences within your audio recordings, watch the following tutorial up until 1:45.
Audacity Lesson 12 - Remove Silence and Improve Audio
Free music and sound libraries:
- zapsplat.com which is where I downloaded mine from
- freesound.org
JustCast
A podcast hosting service which relies on your DropBox account. Cheap and provides private podcast feeds.
Anchor
A podcast hosting, recording, editing, and distributing service. It is free but you can’t make private podcast feeds using it.
This episode details what exactly is a podcast and what are some of the positives podcasts can bring to education. Additionally, you will be led to some resources which can assist you in implementing podcasts in the classroom.
Show Notes:
Transcript and Bibliography
Relevant podcasts for students:
- Secondary School: 50 Of The Best Podcasts For High School Students
- Primary School: KidsListen.org
Serial:
This podcast has a transcript.
It also has a set of 5 classroom units designed around it by Michael Godsey.
Teachers Pay Teachers:
A website where teachers can sell their own created resources to other teachers.
Podcast Response Brochures, a product on this site.
This American Life:
Each episode of this podcast has its own transcript linked to from the episode page.
This page has a record of how other teachers have used the podcast for their students.
Ideas for student created podcasts:
- 50 Ideas for Student Created Podcasts
- Technology in the Classroom: How, Why to Use Podcasts
Sound Effect from https://www.zapsplat.com
An introduction which explains the content of this podcast series.
Show Notes:
Transcript and Bibliography
Sound Effect from https://www.zapsplat.com