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Keywords: newspaper, podcasting, multicultural, spanish, foreign language, news, community
Subject(s): Technology, Foreign Language, Social Skills, Journalism, Podcasting, Information Skills
Grades P-K through 12
School: Spoto High School, Riverview, FL
Planned By: Yohanis Carrera
Original Author: Yohanis Carrera, Riverview
Students will become familiar with the podcasting software and will weekly podcast in Spanish a news section that will cover the major events happening both at school and in the community. Higher level Spanish students as well as the Spanish club will collaborate in this news section. Accountability will be an important factor to consider in this activity, students will be assigned a section to work in one week ahead. A mailbox for questions and suggestions will be placed in Spanish classrooms, so that the targetted audience can interact and request topics relevant to their school life and their culture. Parents will be requested to provide feedback as well and will be able to support their children more properly at school, since they will be better informed in their native language.
Every Friday our students will podcast the news section and they will receive the assignments for the coming Friday.
Comments
This project will serve both as a class project and an skills assessment tools for higher Spanish level students.
Cross-Curriculum Ideas
Students will develop their public relations skills as well as their writing and reading skills in Spanish. Students will also receive training on anchoring skills and journalism.
Follow-Up
Mailboxes placed in the Spanish classrooms will provide an indirect assessment method to track the efficiency of the project and to make the necessary corrections to it.
Materials: Point and Shoot, Mobile Labs, Podcasting, Video Editing, Digital Voice Recorders
Other Items: 1 Mobile podcasting lab, $3459.95 each, total of $3459.95
4 Olympus Digital Recorders, model VN-240 , $40each each, $160.00 each, total of $640.00