What I heard on SMS Guys Read was a radio program produced by students that enjoyed doing book reports to a larger audience than just a teacher. They wanted feed back from people like themselves who loved to read and discuss books. The presentation was nicely done with a little rhythmic music intro and sign off.
I thought this is what the doctor ordered as a project for students who love to read but find using a pencil to dicuss what they've read too pedestrian.
I spoke with our middle school computer teacher and found that no one has ever done a podcast from our school. There are no mikes. I told her a mike would only cost around ten bucks, but she didn't think we could do one with our computers. Our district computer guy was in the building, so I approached him. He said the district has done no podcasting and that he didn't think we could do one on our computers. He did mention that the process uses a lot of room on the band. He said he would check with others to see if we could get something started.
I am able to listen to podcasts here. I was not able to get Mike R's "round Midnight"though.
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You might want to check out gcast.com you can do a podcast there just by calling in on the phone. That's the way I did the podcast on this blog: http://web20teachertools.blogspot.com/2008/10/podcasting.html
ReplyDeleteWhile you might not be able to actually host the podcast on your district's websites (it does use up a lot of bandwidth) you can host your podcast on an outside website. I've contacted the technology department here to see if they can unblock my website where my podcast is so everyone in Christina school district can at least see it.
ReplyDeleteI bought a headset with a microphone on it at Walmart for like $15. It does the job and I'm sure the computers at your school have a jack for a microphone and for speakers. Just plug into the back of the machine and you can record your voice (or the students' voices) easily).