Podcasting+Agenda

2011 TFLA FALL CONFERENCE = Description: __Podcasting in the LOTE Classroom__   = Enhance your curriculum by learning how to do Podcasting using cell phones or the technology available in your school. Learn three ways to use Podcasting in the classroom: daily grades, homework, and performance assessments (projects). Get rubrics for students’ individual accountability in collaborative groups, and learn how to establish a Media Policy in your classroom. At the end of this session, participants will create their own Podcast using Web 2.0 Tools and their cell phones.

Objective: __At the end of this session, participants will leave with a URL address with their recording of their own Podcast recorded, and a list of Web 2.0 Tools.__

I. Why Language lab and Technology for 21st Century learners? – 20 minutes PREZI Presentation.

a) Participants will learn that a Language Lab in the classroom is essential to promote the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) needed to learn a new language.

b) 21st Century Strategies and Skills: Focus on Collaboration.

c) Technology-Simply use all available: hardware available in your school district, such as laptop carts for check-out, library computers, headphones with microphones, smart boards, digital cameras, a desktop computer or laptop connected to a projector or lumen.

d) Free Software on Internet-Participants will discuss why to use Web 2.0 Tools and interactive Applications in a Spanish classroom.

II.Participants will learn how to implement Podcasting in their classrooms to accomplish the same results as having a language lab without expensive equipment and free internet tools - 30 minutes

a)What is Podcasting? It refers to an audio content (usually in MP3 format) which you can listen on your computer or MP3 player.

b)Participant will see my students’ 1 minute Podcasts created with an audio file recording from microphone’s headphones using laptops in class.

c)Participants will learn how to Record a Podcast using audio files from microphone headphones using a computer or laptop.

d)Participants will see my Spanish student’s examples who designed animated Vokis and blabberizers with their own podcasts recorded by them in Spanish.

e)Participants will learn how to use www.voki.com or http://blabberize.com. And how to embed their Podcast in a blog or internet page.

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Participants will record lines in Spanish from their // cell phones. // The recording can be used as their personal presentation for their new upcoming classes. A feed is created with their call, and their published URL feed is available anytime online. Participants will listen to their podcasts during the session.

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