Why make a Podcast?
Podcasting is a great way to share work. It gives pupils a real and mass audience for their work and so increases motivation. Sound is an exciting and engaging medium to work with – a change from print and paper. Here are some examples of how schools are using Podcasting across the curriculum. • Record poems and stories that the pupils have written. • Play songs and music that the children or young people have written and recorded (but take note of copyright laws) • Make a news programme. It could be school news, world news or news from history. • Make an outside broadcast from a field trip or sports day and publish it on the school website. • Make a school radio station with jokes, pupil interests, competitions, interviews etc. and ‘podsafe’ music. • Make a recording to help with revision. Work with the pupils/students to record key facts, processes and information for any subject area. • MFL – make a broadcast in another language. • Make a recording to give information to pupils in t
