Laura Wright

Podcasting with Year 2

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For my second last practical placement I was very blessed to work with a veteran teacher of 30 years. Totally comfortable in her own skin she gave me relative free reign over a science and technology unit on Endangered Animals.

We read books together and investigated the term ‘endangered’. Each child then chose an endangered animal and found out a bit about them. Students used this information to create a short script which they then recorded as a podcast. This being my first project integrating technology there are things I would do differently next time but the students where really happy with their work and were able to share it with their parents through the class blog I also set up.

This project is also on our Wrightstuff Interactive website.

Click here to hear a sample podcast, see the student work sheet and assessment rubric over at issue.com The assessment was for the script not the podcast.

First-post-phobia

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The first post of a blog is similar to writing on the first page of a new notebook. As Miss Stacy said of each new day, it is “fresh with no mistakes”. That’s why I think I have developed first-post-phobia. This serious and very common condition causes sufferers to begin multiple blogs, yet never really get into the pattern of posting… usually because the first post doesn’t seem quite right… Well – in an effort to conquer this debilitating condition here is my first post.