In this episode I outline the language unit I taught this term which resulted in my students podcasting their original pieces of poetry. It was an amazing journey and all students were proud of their accomplishments. The students were given a timetable to plan their own week in which they had to complete some reading, maths, writing and complete their podcasts. I had no management issues at all. The students were so focussed on their tasks and so involved in their learning that I just helped out when I was needed. I only let the students completely run their own learning for one week of the term but they really enjoy it. And the results speak for themselves. The podcast below, A Poem by Jade, is one of the resulting poetry podcasts. I would be really interested to hear from other teachers who have used podcasting in interesting ways in their classrooms.
(The images in this podcast are a selection of photographs taken by my students in this unit)