n my classroom, I’ve mainly used GarageBand to create audio for
digital stories or to create audio for electronic portfolios. I
haven’t tried to do any recurring podcasts, such as regularly
scheduled news report, but I think it would be an excellent project
What caught my interest, was the number of podcasts that could be
used as primary sources for research. My class is working on a history
project right now, and as a result of this assignment, I’ve discovered
there many excellent audio/podcast resources. When I assigned the
history project five weeks ago, I didn’t require them to find an audio
resource, but after investigating this topic, I think we need to do an
add-on to our original assignment.
The following list includes some of the podcasts and other audio
resources that would be suitable for my 6th grade students:
http://www.alaskool.org/resources/audiovisual/avindex.htm
Alaskool “Online materials about Alaska Native history, education,
languages, and cultures.”
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/primarysources.html
Primary Source Materials: Moving Images and Sound Recordings
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/primary.html Library of Congress
This link has many suggestions for using primary resources, and it has
many links for audio resources.
http://science.nasa.gov/ The Red Planet is Not a Dead Planet
This title is one example of the amazing space exploration resource
available at NASA. This site has podcasts, in English and in Spanish,
for NASA’s news releases.
http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/Podcasts.shtmlThis site has an incredible wealth of current event and historical
podcasts. The topics are comprehensive. An example description
includes: “A place where tears are dried.” Interview: Adapting an
Israeli model for helping orphans, Anne Heyman is leading efforts to
create a youth village for Rwandan orphans. She discusses the
inspiration for the project and how she has managed to make it a
reality.
Does anyone else feel like their web tools are in too many places?
