Student Podcast PODCAST

This is the Student Podcast PODCAST, a podcast featuring great student podcasts. Each week we highlight student work and hear from their teachers about the challenges and successes of podcasting with their students. We believe elevating students’ voices beyond the classroom and sharing the lesson process will inspire others to get podcasting with their classes!

Listenwise News Bites Promo 05/21/2020

Listenwise News Bites Promo Are you a teacher with students who have limited access to wifi or laptops? Are you running out of ideas to keep your kids engaged in high quality, fun learning? The Listenwise News Bites podcast combines NPR news stories selected for young listeners with instructional activities. Listen on wifi, or download for an easy, offline way to engage young learners with fun news, weird news, and some serious news. Find this new podcast on Apple Podcasts today! For more age appropriate and engaging news lessons go to: www.listenwise.com /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/14511812

Episode 16: A Service-Learning Podcasting Project 11/03/2019

Episode 16: A Service-Learning Podcasting Project This episode features 3rd grade teacher David Green ([email protected]) and his students from North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, Illinois. David has been creating audio with his students for 15 years, long before it was called podcasting! For this service learning project, David and his students visited the Lakeview Food Pantry in Chicago to explore the problem of hunger. Listen to hear David’s expert tips for a successful podcasting project. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/11869787

Episode 15: ‘Day in the Life’ with Podcasts 10/13/2019

Episode 15: ‘Day in the Life’ with Podcasts n this podcast, 5th graders from Jordan/Jackson Elementary School in Mansfield, MA explore the different lives of their classmates by conducting interviews with each other and with their teachers. They cover topics ranging from what food they eat for breakfast, to their favorite classes, to the best part of coming back home from school. Teacher Rayna Freedman had her students work in groups and asked them to pick 15 words from their vocabulary program, and that led to a lot of creativity. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/11605733

Episode 14: Debunking Myths and Stereotypes through Podcasting 10/06/2019

Episode 14: Debunking Myths and Stereotypes through Podcasting In this episode, we hear from students at Crow Agency Public School, located on the Crow Reservation in Montana. Fifth grade teacher Connie Michael was inspired to make this podcast with her students after working with teachers at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, where she learned that students across the country had significant misconceptions about life on a reservation. Connie wanted to give her students the opportunity to debunk these myths and stereotypes. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/11515787

Episode 13: NPR Podcast Challenge Middle School Winners 09/29/2019

Episode 13: NPR Podcast Challenge Middle School Winners In this episode, you’ll hear from the 2019 NPR Podcast Challenge middle school winners from Bronx Prep Middle School! Teacher Shehtaz Huq helped a group of 8th grade girls create “Sssh! Periods,” in which they explored the taboo topic of menstruation. Their podcast emulates an NPR-style reported story, and includes the voices of seven student podcasters: Kathaleen, Raizel, Litzy, Caroline, Ashley, Jasmin, and Kassy. Congrats girls! /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/11429663

Episode 12: Podcasting to explore 'Bias in the Media' 09/22/2019

Episode 12: Podcasting to explore 'Bias in the Media' This episode comes from the classroom of 5th and 6th grade teacher Kate Fischer from the Hyde Park School in Cincinnati, Ohio. One of Kate's student, Anna Kunkel, took on the challenge of podcasting in class, and used her podcast to explore ‘Bias in the Media’, a challenge she has personally faced in her own research projects. Listen to hear clips from Anna’s podcast, with reflections from her teacher on the project, and tips & tricks from our host, Monica Brady-Myerov. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/11317157

Episode 11: Vocabulary Podcasts - Going Deep on a Single Word 09/15/2019

Episode 11: Vocabulary Podcasts - Going Deep on a Single Word In this episode we go deep into the meaning of words and hear from ELA teacher Mary Beth Steven’s students as they dig into the etymology of vocabulary terms such as ‘kerfuffle’ and ‘hippopotamus’. Her sixty-six students were split into groups of 4-5, created a total of 15 podcasts for their classroom series ‘One Word at a Time’. Listen to hear clips from the series, with reflections from Mary Beth on her experience creating this podcast series with her students. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/11236640

Episode 10: ‘Finding Light in the Darkness’ with Podcasts 09/08/2019

Episode 10: ‘Finding Light in the Darkness’ with Podcasts In this episode we hear a podcast from the 8th grade class of /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/11140616

Episode 9: Student Run Podcasts for their District 09/01/2019

Episode 9: Student Run Podcasts for their District This episode features ‘Lead GCISD Students’, a student-run podcast from the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District in Fort Worth, Texas. Students from any one of the district’s campuses can submit their podcast on a topic of their choice. Kerissa Bearce, formerly an Instructional Coach for the district, screened the episodes and added an intro and outro. In this episode we hear 3 student clips, one about fandom, one about homework, and finally one about the Constitution. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/11045297

Episode 8: Math Podcasts - Engaging with Math Authentically 06/16/2019

Episode 8: Math Podcasts - Engaging with Math Authentically This episode highlights the first podcast project done by Matt Stokes, an 8th-Grade Math/Algebra 1 at the International School of Brooklyn. His class podcast features NPR Style Reporting about fun Math concepts, mores specifically digging into simplifying radicals, multiplying radicals, and converting radicals into exponents. We love that they named it ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Matt’s students Rico Brill and Elliot Thomas-Gregory created this podcast using iMovie technology with other open source apps. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/10144593

Episode 7: Retelling Stories in New and Innovative Ways 06/09/2019

Episode 7: Retelling Stories in New and Innovative Ways This episode highlights Margot Amouyal’s podcast, Yolanda Wilcox González’s student, from the Beaver Country Day School in Massachusetts. Margot is a junior and has been creating a podcast series for her independent study project. We highlight one podcast from her series which was submitted to the NPR student podcast challenge this Spring, earning an honorable mention. You can listen to the full podcast here. Here is the link to Monica’s DIY podcasting studio here. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/10098968

Episode 6: Emulating Real Podcasts, Like “Serial” 06/02/2019

Episode 6: Emulating Real Podcasts, Like “Serial” In this episode hear a podcast that sounds just like the introduction to the Serial podcast. Former high school ELA Teacher, Michael Godsey initially wanted to share his excitement for the Serial podcast with his students and their love for podcasting blossomed through that. Listen to the full published podcast on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/mrgodsey/stranger-serial-introduction and find some of his podcast lesson worksheets on teachers pay teachers: http://ow.ly/Gfui50utXbQ /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/9999536

Episode 5: Podcasting with Clubs and not Classrooms 05/26/2019

Episode 5: Podcasting with Clubs and not Classrooms In this episode hear a podcast created by a student club from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Eastvale, CA. The students examine the concept of academic identity, where students become so wrapped up in academic achievement that it starts to define them. Teacher Frank Mata was the advisor to the club and says because students were not being graded on this project he thought they were freed creatively. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/9910187

Episode 4: Book Reports in Podcast Form 05/20/2019

Episode 4: Book Reports in Podcast Form In this episode we go to Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough North Carolina and listen to Laura Isenhour’s class’s podcast discussions. In place of book reports, her Grade 10 English II class worked in groups and recorded their discussions about the non-fiction books they read. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/9827945

Episode 3: History Lessons in Immigration 05/19/2019

Episode 3: History Lessons in Immigration In this episode you’ll head from Dan Kearney, an 8th grade history teacher who did a podcast series on immigration with his students. Minka, the student featured in this episode, submitted her work to NPR’s student podcast challenge, where she was a finalist in the middle school category. This episode also explores a grading rubric for classroom podcast projects. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/9827897

Episode 2: Human Impacts of Catastrophic Events 05/18/2019

Episode 2: Human Impacts of Catastrophic Events This episode highlights students from Mr. Erik Eve’s 8th Grade Social Studies class at Lindenhurst Middle School in New York. For their first podcasting project, Erik’s students explored the impacts of Hurricane Sandy on their community. The students recorded their work using the voice recorder app on their iPhones. Listen to hear excerpts of these podcasts, with reflections from Mr. Erik Eve and podcasting tips from Monica. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/9827822

Episode 1: Immigrant Journey Interviews 05/17/2019

Episode 1: Immigrant Journey Interviews In this episode you’ll hear from Shalini Rao, a 5th Grade Teacher formerly at the Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Shalini used interview-style podcasting as a way to capture immigrant stories and bring the community into her classroom. Listen to two different student podcast samples and hear Monica point out great tips & tricks to podcasting alongside Shalini’s reflections for future podcast lessons. /episode/index/show/studentpodcastpodcast/id/9827699

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