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Here’s a message from OCDSB teacher, Lorraine Montgomery:

Hi all,

Please do visit our classroom podcast site:

We recorded our presentation from Tuesday and also now have our first Point of View podcast uploaded for listening.  My students would love to have comments posted for them to read on Monday when we go to lab.

Cheers!

Lorraine Montgomery
Dunlop PS 5/6

Shaw Jackson is a participant in our TLLP podcast workshops.

Hi Nathan,

I did a podcast with our school’s EarthCare Green Team advertising our upcoming Festive Light Exchange. We are playing this brief announcement over the PA system each morning this week. Parents can also hear this podcast at our school’s website (wej1.blogspot.com) – click the Parents link.

It did not take too much time at all to create this (writing the script, recording the voices, editing). We used the portable audio recorder to record the students’ voices. The music was downloaded from Soundsnap.com.

Shaw Jackson
WEJ

P.S. Just wanted to let you know that another teacher here at WEJ, Pat Ollevier also worked on our Festive Light podcast (we run the Green Team together). She was eager to learn about audacity!

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I was just recently asked by a journalist if I knew of any student produced podcasts done in Toronto schools. It was really difficult to answer that question. One problem is that a lot of these podcasts are really only being done for a particular audience and so they don’t “advertise” by registering with a podcast provider or a directory.

I keep my eye on the iTunes Education K-12 section. The new and notable area is a great source of information on what I could be subscribing to. I have found several school podcasts that way but not everyone posts to iTunes.

Another place to find podcasts is through podcast directories. An example of one of those is CanadaPodcasts.ca A quick google search will give you all kinds of these but again if people haven’t registered it is hard to find them.

Another problem is that often the podcast descriptions and even the blogs or websites associated with the podcasts don’t give information on where the school is or what grade the students are. Be sure when you post that you provide that information so that others can find you.

So here is my call. If you are producing a podcast with your students please let me know. Leave a comment with this post. We would love to give it a listen. Tell us what school you are at and where and what grades of students are involved.

And as a personal plug…. take some time to listen to our student produced podcast PortableRadio. Our show is produced by two grade 5/6 classes in Stittsville, Ontario just outside of Ottawa.

It is always great to promote one of our own.

Merivale High School, one of our OCDSB high schools, has begun podcasting.  MoRadio is on the air. This project is the brain child of teacher Scott Hughes. They promise “We’ve got Mo Music, Mo entertainment and Mo information than any other Podcast!” . With 3 podcasts out at the time of this writing, they are working hard to meet that promise.

Be sure to visit them at moradio.ca

written by Jane Smith

Studio 26 is a podcast that is produced by the students in Lorraine Montgomery’s grade 6/5 class at Broadview Public School in the Ottawa Carleton District School Board. Lorraine’s students have produced and recorded mystery stories. There are a variety to choose from. The titles get you interested right away: “Who Killed Sarah?”, “Exhibit Gold” and “Unfriendly Family Reunions” are just a few.

Just to keep you guessing, many of the students have recorded the solutions to the mysteries as separate audio entries from the story. This lets you play detective and test your skills of deduction.

Check out this podcast at: http://mysm2000.edublogs.org/