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=Juniors: Podcasting and Oral Language=

What you can expect from today's session:
 * To see podcasting in action
 * To hear how podcasting can impact on oral language in the classroom
 * To discover how we can create and upload a podcast to the world.

To begin our day...

 * In terms of ICT what are you and your children using with some success?
 * Photostory for life cycles, shared books, using older experts to come in and take photos for the photostories
 * Creating flow charts using the "printscreen" function so that my juniors can use programmes with greater independence.
 * Digital camera stills - of swimming to create WALTs with the children, sequences of events for children to write to, for identifying shapes and close ups of areas in school that we are developing.
 * Smart boards - as a resource in them selves but also as a vehicle to model shared use of photostory etc
 * Digital camera movies to capture learning conversations with and between children.
 * Video camera to review learning.
 * What was of value to you from our last Mental Berocca - "Creativity and the Competencies"?
 * The game "This is not a.... it is a....." children have grown in the creativity in this game over time from copying others or the teacher to being unique. It is a great game to exercise their creativity, but easy and quick to play.
 * While as adults we think we are not creative, and percieve that our children are not creative, this Mental Berocca helped me to see that if we make the time, space and give encouragement young minds are very creative!
 * This session allowed me to think about the importance of being flexible and framing opportunities for creativity.
 * I now try to place a focus on diverse thinking and time for reflection on learning.
 * To be creative and encourage alternatives
 * The fleximusic programme is being used by my juniors with engagement and great outcomes
 * That photos are a powerful tool to allow student voice to reflect on learning and plan learning ahead.

Powerful podcasting is happening in our cluster
Lesley and her class from Horohoro have been podcasting for the last year. Her focus was to improve her students oral language, she used podcasting as a vehicle for doing this.
 * Consider why this might be a powerful learning tool for the teacher and the learner?
 * the learner can see themselves and hear themselves
 * it captures the childrens learning ang growth in oral language development

Delving Deeper with Podcasting and Pedagogy
Let a kiwi teacher tell us about [|pedagogy and podcasting].

Subscriber or Creator?
When you listen to a podcast you are usually using it as a resource to inform, inspire or entertain. If you find a series of podcasts you really enjoy you can subscribe - just as you would to a magazine! There are to ways to subscribe
 * 1) RSS - Really Simple Syndication: you can tell the website that you want updates "pushed" to your email inbox. Look for this symbol on the page.[[image:Picture_1.png]]
 * 2) Subscribe to itunes - all modern machines have itunes on them. While most of us think we use this only for playing and storing music it is also a "mailbox" to collect your podcasts to which you wish to subscribe. You can subscribe to almost anything as long as you see this button...

Great - but I want to create so...What can I use right now for podcasting!

 * movies taken using your digital camera
 * kidpix
 * voice or other recordings using "audacity" or "sony acid"
 * a photo, podomatic, and a microphone
 * photostory or moviemaker movies

=Now get your learning to the WWW=
 * To do this we need to find a host for our podcasts. [|Podomatic] is one such host - it is free and is used by many other classrooms in NZ
 * To learn how to use this host click here [|HowtosetupaPodomaticPodcastPage.doc]

Podomatic sites we have created and intend to use for the purpose of our children having a wider and authentic audience

 * [|Learning Journey -] Lake Rerewhakaaitu
 * [|Fun in year one]- Mihi and Ngakuru
 * [|The thin wall]- Reporoa
 * [|Our world of colour and design]- Broadlands