Slide 1

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 2

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 3

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 4

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 5

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 6

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 7

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 8

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 9

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 10

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 11

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 12

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 13

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 14

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 15

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 16

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 17

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 18

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 19

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 20

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 21

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 22

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 23

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 24

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 25

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 26

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 27

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 28

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 29

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 30

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 31

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 32

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 33

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 34

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 35

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 36

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 37

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 38

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 39

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 40

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 41

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 42

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 43

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
•
•
•
•

Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]


Slide 44

iPod, uPod, wePod…
ANYONE CAN PODCAST!!!

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
Spanish/Special Ed. Teacher
Edison Public Schools
[email protected]

Goals
• What is a podcast
• How to use podcasting
for instruction and
assessment
• How to create &
publish a podcast

Differentiated instruction-audience
Experienced podcasters

Novice podcasters

I hope to give you more
ideas to add to your
teacher tool box.

I hope to inspire you to
play with this
technology & add it to
your teacher tool box

How it began…
• Sunday Star Ledger – Summer 2006
• I didn't even own an iPod
• Aware of the love affair between today’s
youth and iPods
• World Language classroom offered a
natural fit for this technology
• Applied for FLENJ mini-grant
• Was fortunate enough to receive it
• Thus began the journey

What is a podcast?
• A web-based form of broadcasting that allows
anyone with a computer and/or digital media
device to download and listen to content
(Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas)

• A digital recording of a radio broadcast or
similar program, made available on the Internet
for downloading to a personal audio player.
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

More…
• Combination of the words iPod and broadcast
• It can be a radio show, new music release,
monologue or anything else in an MP3 format.
• A way to selectively subscribe to audio and/or
video content over the internet.
• Can be automatically added to your iPod
• It’s like having DVR/TiVo for your iPod

In simple terms, a podcast is…

an audio recording (mp3 file)
posted on the internet that
anyone can download.

Interesting fact….

The editors of the New Oxford American
Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005
word of the year.

Reasons to use podcasting???
•
•
•
•
•

Highly engaging
Easy to use
Fun way to inspire students
Delivers authentic language
Can be easily incorporated to what you are
probably already doing
• Your students will think it’s cool to have an
iPod in class

My personal reason for using podcasting…
Engages the students!

Tell me and I’ll forget;
show me and I may
remember;
involve me and I
will understand.

From Wikipedia
• Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in
education.
• Podcasts enable students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time. An absent
student can download the podcast of the recorded
lesson.
• It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to
communicate curriculum, assignments and other
information with parents and the community.

More from Wikipedia
• Teachers can record book discussions,
vocabulary or foreign language lessons,
international pen pal letters, music
performance, interviews, and debates.
• Podcasting can be a publishing tool for
student oral presentations.
• Video podcasts can be used in all these ways
as well.

Podcasting
Instruction & Assessment
• Podcasting can be used in all three modes of
communication.

• It can be used for instruction and assessment.
• Easiest way to incorporate podcasting in to your
classroom is by using familiar strategies.

Interpretive - TPR Approach
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Thematic unit on food and the restaurant
Free podcast on iTunes
Had a lot of translating
Just use what you need

Interpretive - TPR Approach (cont.)
• Taught vocabulary ahead of time (using clip art)
• Listened to podcast using speakers
• Stopped podcast occasionally and asked oral
comprehension questions
• Gave them ditto with clip art of vocabulary had
students circle the pictures of the vocabulary they
heard
• Gave them written comprehension questions to
answer.

Interpretive
• Use audio podcast the same way you would use
authentic interpretive reading materials
• Instead of pre-teaching vocabulary, use podcast as
an opportunity to listen for context clues,
cognates, identify words they know and perhaps
make lists of words they would like to know

Interpretive

Create your own lessons for students to listen to
• Thematic unit-Around the city
• Create podcast where students follow
directions on a map of a city

Interpretive
• Thematic Unit – School Life
• Create podcast about what school supplies
they need for the school year
• Students make a list of the supplies that were
mentioned

Interpersonal
• As a springboard for conversations
• Similar to information gap - Give students
different podcasts on the same topic and have
them interview each other
• Jigsaw puzzle – students listen to different
podcasts and then need to speak to a variety
of people to get all the information they need
to complete a task

Interpersonal
Thematic unit – Las Vacaciones
• Show Time Spanish – Marc & Alba talk about
the seasons.
• Students were assigned to listen to a specific
speaker and then had to interview each other
to find out information about the speaker they
didn’t listen to

Presentational - assessment
• Probably the easiest way to incorporate
podcasting
• Create a presentation and record
• GIMMICK- Tell students it’s to post on a
website

School Life
Students create a podcast to post on their
school website
Audience
• For ESL students
• Next year’s 6th grade class (or 9th grade class)

Presentational - instruction
Evaluate assessments
-play a presentation and analyze it as a class
-Why is it good?
-Why does it need improvement?
-How can we make it better?
-students can record their presentation and
use their rubrics to self assess

Presentational podcasts
Create their own podcast (video podcasts)
• news report
• weather report
• fashion show
• celebrity homes
• commercials/infomercials
• real estate ad
• restaurant review

Other ideas for podcasting
World Language Clubs
• Have members become reporters.
• Find out what is going on around the school and post
a weekly, biweekly or monthly podcast in your target
language on your school’s website.
Homework
• Post listening assignments on a website
( I like wikispaces)

The technical stuff!
Where do we get podcasts?
How do we make them?

You do NOT need an iPod
in order to podcast!!!

• An MP3 player will do
• Just using a computer works too
• Digital Voice Recorders - Easy way to start
• Podcast is just easier to say than MP3cast

Where to find podcasts
Podcast directories are growing every day.
• iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from
the web
• ODEO - has nice playback and subscription
options
• GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of
podcasts with great music!
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast.net
• NPR Podcast Directory
• Universities/Colleges

BE PREPARED TO SEARCH FOR THE CONTENT
YOU WANT!!!

• It can be time consuming…but worthwhile
• Great summer project

American culture vs. target language culture

What other cultures see as acceptable may
not be in sync with American culture
Screen content carefully

iTunes
• Apple music store on the
internet
• Software is a free
download
• apple.com
• ipod + itunes
• You do not need an iPod
to use iTunes
iTunes

iTunes Store
• On Left-look for podcasts
• 2 categories - audio & video (new)

• Click on Education
• Scroll down to More Education
• Language Courses

Subscribing to podcast
Makes things easier
Currently subscribe to about 17 podcasts
• Coffee Break Spanish
• Show Time Spanish
• Noti Uno-newscast
• Sycamore School

Began with a search “podcasts en español”
Other languages
• Yahoo!France
• Yahoo!Italia
• Yahoo!German
http://www.yahoo.com

Universities/Colleges

• World language/Foreign Language Dept.
• Some sites have podcasts you can use
You can also find these on iTunes

Using the technology
Listening to podcasts
• You can attach speakers to an iPod or MP3

player. Speakers vary in size and price
• If you have access to the internet you don’t
even need an iPod. You can play a podcast right
from your computer.
• Class set of iPods

Tips for class set of iPods

• Number your iPods

• Assign students to numbers and have them
sign out

• Pair two students to iPod
• Use baby wipes to keep earphones sanitary

Create & publish a podcast…MAC

• attach a microphone to iPod (Brands-Belkin &
Extreme)

• use Garage Band to create and send your
podcast directly to your iTunes library

Create a podcast…PC

• Use digital voice recording software to create
podcasts (audacity – free download)
• Use a digital voice recorder

Publishing a podcast…PC
Load podcast on to website
that supports audio files.
I like wikispaces!

Publishing a podcast…PC
Gcast.com
• Takes care of everything for you
• Make a podcast (even by phone)
• Add music to podcast
• Creates RSS feed that allows listeners to tune
in
• It’s FREE!

Summary
• Find podcasts that align with your curriculum
• Incorporate them to something you already
doing (i.e. make a presentation in to a podcast)
• Use them for all three modes of
communication
• Use them for instruction as well as assessment
• Have fun with this technology

Useful resources - BOOKS

Secrets of Podcasting, Bart G. Farkas
KidCast-Podcasting in the classroom, Dan Schmit

KidCast-Creative Podcasting, Dan Schmit
Educator’s Podcast guide, Bard Williams

THANK YOU!!!

Hope you have
been inspired

Glennysha Jurado-Moran
[email protected]