Stoke CLC encourage podcasting in schools

Stoke CLC are doing a fantastic job in encouraging schools in their area to take up podcasting with the use of Podium.

Media Technologist, Phil Gregory from Longton CLC, recently travelled to Smallthorne Primary Schoolto teach children and staff how to get started with Podium podcasting software in their school. The children who were taught would then act as mentors to pass the skills on to other students in Year 5.

Year Five teacher Mrs Leese, and NQT Mr Hepple brought the class in and settled down to find out more about podcasting. Phil explained what a podcast actually is and what the students would be doing in their activity.

The students then planned their Podcast around a recent project on the solar system about some of the planets they had learned about. The group was split into twos and each group worked on a separate planet of their choice planning what they would say and rehearsing.

After a short break the students gathered around the demonstration machine to begin creating the podcast. First they added the Podcast meta data, which helps podcasts be found by search engines. This information also helps users know what they are listening to and who it is produced by.

They then created a new chapter for each planet, and typed in the handwritten notes as a proper script for each group. Podium allows presenters to each have their own colour assigned to their lines in the script, this makes the script easier for students to read once recording begins. Then Each group recorded their chapter. Once all the groups had recorded their chapter Phil sourced some copyright free music to server as intro/outro music and chapter markers and added it into the podcast. We edited the podcast to remove and coughs, noises or mistakes and then published the podcast to the SGFL server.

A great day was had by all and the students really enjoyed listening to their own work.

Podium makes it really easy to distribute your podcasts by simply emailing it out to people on your contacts list or by copying and pasting a web address into your website or blog.

If you are in the area and interested in getting Podium in your school please contact Stoke CLC.
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