Since Bob Usher’s course in January, many of our schools are now beginning to incoporate Podcasting as a strategy in the delivery of engaging curriculum activities.
We have examples of teachers using podcasts as a strategy for supporting children with their homework such as teacher, Karen Easterling’s ‘Division using Chunking’ podcast at Farnborough Primary School. We can also see examples of students recreating and processing their learning in the form of their own podcasts such as the Year 6 Flashback at Darrick Wood Junior Primary School. Churchfields Primary School (Christmas in Argentina ) and Warren Road Primary School have also been very active in using podcasts to supplement their curriculum program.
Podcasts are not hard to do and they can offer great value to the school’s curriculum program. They can be used successfully from Reception to Key Stage 4.
The LGFL offer a site for hosting podcasts produced by teachers and children. Schools can set up their accounts and load their podcasts to be shared with other schoools. The site also has some great suggestions for incorporating podcasts into currioculum planning along with tools to help you get started (and most of those tools are free). Visit Podcast Central for more information. (Use your LGFL login and password to get cracking…).
If you are interested in having your class participate in a podcast ICT Project Adventure please email me. If any other Bromley Schools (or from any other borough for that matter) are using podcasting, please share your thoughts with us on the blogsite. I would be really keen to hear from your, especially any secondary schools)
