Two Peas in a PODcast!

While all of my friends seemed to be buzzing about the recent podcast series Serial, I seemed to have missed the boat. I still held on to the idea that podcasts were boring. I just didn't understand why anyone would want to spend their time listening to one! I've never been a huge fan of talk radio, but now I kind of feel like I am missing out! Reading about podcasts only seemed to further my hesitations... amateur radio?? I don't think so. Once we took a look at the different aspects of a podcast like the "sound and feel", intro and outro, style, and audience, I finally started to see how they could be cool.

Kerri and I embarked on our journey to create our own podcast to be part of a series Monument Moments. Making the podcast was a lot more fun than I expected! It was so easy to synthesize our information into a short amount of time! We even got to add fun sound effects and spend time working on how we wanted our voices to sound. After this experience, I definitely want my students to take a shot at this! I love how they are able to practice fluency through practicing their scripts, and they would be able to record it as many times as they need. This sounds much better than a typical oral presentation. I also think that having the students' podcasts all be part of a series would help create a common goal for the class. It would be so much fun to share these with others and see the students be proud of their work!