Creating a podcast was one of the more entertaining assignments that I have worked with. I toyed with Anchor but due to the Coronavirus, I ended up conducting the podcast over Zoom and then compiling the video in Movie Maker 10. For this particular assignment, I conducted a podcast that breaks down various literary works and analyzes them, the author, and some of the deeper implications or connections made to the piece selected.
For this particular assignment, I combined a few different aspects of the guidelines from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Universal Design for Learning (UDL). While it could be argued that depending on how the podcast is conducted that all aspects of the ISTE could be covered to an extent, the ones I mainly focused on all 3 aspects of the Empowered Professional section of the ISTE guidelines: Learner, Leader, and Citizen. The learner aspect comes from the students choice in what literary piece they want to study, their own personal research conducted, and the integration of credible and accurate information into their work. The leader aspect, which touches very closely on the collaboration aspect, occurs when either partner is the host of the show. They lead and control the conversation and have the opportunity to go "off script" if it benefits the podcast or helps address a deeper issue or meaning to the work. The citizen aspect occurs when students must work together to address the ways in which the work they selected is reflected in society and can discuss the role that they themselves could have in that reflection. As for the UDL, I tried to touch on all three aspects of the UDL guidelines. The engagement aspect occurs in the conversations that take place between the students as they research and create a podcast based on their own interests. The representation aspect occurs in the podcast itself. The images. sounds, words, tones of voice, and other elements of the podcast are all representation and can be analyzed and discussed. The expression aspect takes place in the script as well, but more so in the integration of personal opinions and the story that the podcast tells. All-in-all, podcast like assignments can be a very clever way to integrate technology into the classroom. There could be concerns for individuals who do not speak English, but the ability to add subtitles to podcast in post production can help reduce that concern. What is most important to me however, is that a podcast like assignment empowers students and takes the teacher out of the equation. Teachers can be unintentionally intimidating or their presence can cause anxiety for some students. The podcast creates a golden opportunity for students to speak in a causal way to one another without the teacher being present and the use of a script to be approved before the podcast still allows the teacher to facilitate and help direct students as needed. I highly recommend the use of podcasts in the classroom more often.
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