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Podcasting from the classroom or library has several benefits for students and their teachers alike, including honing media literacy skills, demonstrating content-area mastery, and confidence-building. Here teachers can find materials to begin integrating audio creation in their classrooms, or support existing student-made podcasting efforts. If you would like to network with other school-based podcasters and are interested in taking part in a student-podcasting consortium at the end of the school year, don’t hesitate to drop us a line. Likewise, please reach out to arrange coaching sessions or individual consultations. Museums, libraries, historical societies and other organizations who would like to submit project ideas to be delivered to teachers and their students should get in touch using the contact page as well.

Podcasting for Posterity

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  • Conversations with the Experts—podcasts to help you podcast!

  • Lesson plans and activities

  • “Podcasting to and From the Classroom” webinar

  • Student work samples

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Conversations with the Experts

Podcasts to help you podcast! The EPS Network is proud to bring you a series of conversations with experts and practitioners in the fields of podcasting, experiential education, and communications about the Why and How of audio creation in the educational setting. We hope these segments will boost your confidence with bringing podcasting to your classroom or library.

Eric talks to Wayne about what motivated him to introduce podcasting to his music classes in 2020, and how the success and popularity of it has grown across all parts of his school.

Misty elaborates on how she developed a podcasting club with equipment granted to her school, and how it has proven to be the perfect outlet for the middle school age group.

NH Public Radio’s Long Story Short has enjoyed a decade of success thanks to its creator and host, Beth LaMontagne, and her talents. Beth joined me for Podcasting for Posterity with great lessons how to get students to develop and deliver the stories they carry with them.

Podcasting to and From the Classroom

This webinar covers the essential reasons to begin podcasting with students, and covers the checklist of what needs to be taken care of before launching a student-based podcast.

Lesson Plans and Activities

Student-made podcasts have many uses. These methods can be utilized to produce class newsletters, offer review in preparation for a test, or act as a way to communicate between two sections of the same course. Audio in the classroom is very versatile!

There are several approaches to getting your students to record audio in the classroom or club setting. Here’s a few ideas that have been successful with my students, both in regular classes as well as enrichment sessions.

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Student work samples

The Dover High School Current was a podcast conceived and carried out by the school’s podcasting club under the advisory of Eric Salmonsen. Students started out by learning how to work with the equipment and edit using Audacity software, but gradually took over all the duties necessary to produce regular episodes, including lining up guests, designing cover artwork (seen here) and composing original theme music. The club is going into its third year in 2024-25, but will be the starting place of several individual student projects and shows this year.

The Seacoast Charter School Podcast was created and produced by a half dozen students from 3rd to 7th grade during an after school enrichment club that met once a week for a month. Students each chose a segment based on their interests, wrote their own scripts, and then paired up with a partner to record their section. This method worked well because it allowed each student the opportunity to work as engineer and editor as well as on air personality, giving them equal amounts of exposure to behind and in front of mic duties.