The podcast I created introduces the students to explicit versus implicit text which was one of the topics in my lesson plan. The podcast introduces the two terms and leads the students through a practice activity. The great thing about this is that if a student does not quite understand, they can listen again. The podcast was created using BossJock for iPhone and uploaded to Dropbox.
The video I created was to serve as a rubric for the students’ presentations. I wanted to make it a little humorous because I feel like that gets their attention and helps the concepts sink in. I also wanted to challenge myself to create the entire project on my iPhone. I had attempted to do this before without success. This time I was able to do it. That includes all of the title slides and audio. I took video clips using the camera function of the phone. Then, I created title slides using an app called Poster Maker. I combined all of these in iMovie. Then I added audio from the app and did the voice over.
I enjoy creating things like this for my students. I think they also enjoy getting to see things like this when they are so used to paper and books all the time.
Podcast