Using Podcast in our lessons!

Hello everyone!

Today I'm going to talk you about podcasting a great activity we can develop in our lessons.  With podcast our students can improve their digital competences, their listening and speaking skills and all of that while they are developing the content of the subjects. Amazing, right?

I wanted to work with podcasting in my class and I decided to use this tool to work poetry. Poetry is really important for our students, it helps them express themselves, develop cognitive and communicative skills.... In order to work with all of this I created a project in which my students are going to learn about poetry. I want them to read and listen to poetry, to work their intonation, to know some popular poetry and authors and to create and record their own poetry. To develop all the details of this project I have created a doc in Google Docs so you can get  a better idea of what the project is going to be about.



Once I created my  project it was time to record myself. To record I have used Audacity a free tool which allows you to record and edit your audios, is really easy to use, I'm sure you won't have any problem. The only inconvenience is that you have to download the program, you  can't use it online. After recording myself I uploaded this audio to SoundCloud which is a online platform where you can upload and share your audios.
By clicking on this button you can access to my channel:

 This is my "Welcome to your new class" audio for my students:


With SoundCloud you  can also create playlists. Here you have my playlist for this project:



I must say that I had never worked with audio projects in my class I didn't even heard about it before I started this topic. I was a little overwhelmed before I started this project because I didn't know where to start or what should I do. As I said the first thing you have to do is plan everything (Google Docs as I said is a really useful tool for that) and then you use some tools like Audacity and SoundCloud to do the rest. Take your time to plan and record because audio projects are a really good tool but it takes time, as I said is difficult at the beginning but once you have done one project the second one is going to be much easier.
I'm sure that in the future I will use lots of audio projects in my class because is a tool that I think my students are really going to enjoy. The students can be engage on creating new records and upload, they feel like they are taking part in their own learning, this way the students feel really proud of their work. And another thing I liked is that you can use audio projects for lots of things, I have seen that my classmates have created audio projects for mindfulness, book races, Irish poems, reading... It is an amazing idea to use this resource in our class!

I hope you liked this post and learn as much as I did. See you in my net post.