Real-world podcast examples

Interview with Ben Williams from St Marks Junior School in Salisbury, Wiltshire

This is a brief interview with Ben Williams, the ICT Co-ordinator from St Marks Junior School in Salisbury in Wiiltshire. Ben has been using podcasting as a means of engaging pupils and improving their literacy for well over a year. He shares some of the reasons why podcasting is so powerful, especially with a simple [...]

Podcasting in Spondon
With 32 excited Y1 children, 10 laptops and assortment of microphones, 2 teachers and myself we embarked on a podcast of what each of the groups thought of the story of Cinderella.
Firstly we had to set the kit up over lunch time and check that the laptop batteries were charged and that the mics worked [...]

Podium comes to North Somerset
James and I made the trip on 23rd January to Nailsea to work with Angie Bray and the team from North Somerset and a group of extremely enthusiastic teachers who were going to work with Podium in their schools for the next three months. Apart from anything else the welcome and the sandwiches were wonderful [...]

How podcasting can support children with SEN
I’ve often talked with people up and down the country about the power of podcasting to support children with SEN.
Not only can it help overcome potential barriers of writing or keyboard skills via the use of the pupil’s voice, but it can help extend the quality of their work thanks to the high degree of [...]

Y3 … you can count on them … in French
I’ve had a terrific day !! This afternoon I worked with a couple of absolutely incredibly, stupendous teachers and 26 Y3 children. We podcasted (with Podium)
The children had never heard their voices before and were so excited to listen to each other and to get me to listen to what they had said. There was [...]

Isle of Wight MFL and ICT Conference
Over 70 MFL teachers gathered on Friday and Saturday 12/13th October at Nodehill Middle School in the Isle of Wight for a Conference to reach out and accelerate the use of ICT across all aspects of the teaching and learning of languages. It was a truly multi-national affair with delegates from as far afield [...]

Team 6 Infants release podcast news show with Podium and Espresso
Yet another example of why podcasting is particularly powerful for very young children!
Many thanks to Christine Terry, Head of Grays Infants School in Newhaven, East Sussex, for telling us about a news radio podcasting project recently started by a group of six pupils calling themselves ‘Team 6‘.

Christine has very kindly shared with us her [...]

Podium project gets off to a flying start in Derby
A group of children from a Derby City LA school have met today to begin a podcasting project using Podium. The outcome was really fantastic and the resulting episodes, one as long as 5 minutes, were a testament to the children’s hard work and enthusiasm in getting to grips with the technology.
The children got [...]

Outpour in the Downpour
The power of podcasting really struck home with me last Monday at the Beyond Limits modern sculpture exhibition in the gardens of Chatsworth House. I joined some year 10 students from Deincourt Community School and Year 6 pupils from Kirkstead Juniors at the exhibition with the plan being to record some interviews and podcast them [...]

Using Podium? Tell us what you’re doing
More and more primary and secondary schools are getting into podcasting with Podium. For example, subscribe to this podcast http://www.podiumpodcasting.com/~182196/Los1603071559/PodcastRssFeed.xml by 15 and 16 year old pupils at Helston Community College. Helston entered their podcasts into this year’s TES Newsday competition which had a podcasting category for the first time in the competition’s 18 year [...]

ICT Inspirations (Simon Mills)
My ‘feeds’ direct me again to the blog of Simon Mills who is working very hard on the podcasting front at present.
The labels on the right of his blog and indicate the number of posts on ‘Podcasting’; have a read of the article ‘So what do you think the children get from Podcasting?’ .

Primary Nuggets
The Primary Nuggets blog highlights the success a group of Year 4 children have had using Podium. So much so that they now have aspirations to produce their own radio show, similar to those produced by two primary schools in Wiltshire, Fitzmaurice and St Marks.