Podcasts as learning tools - A Collaborative Learning eTwinning Project

 

Producing and publishing podcasts as educational tools; promoting learning as well as a way of finding out about each other.

Sackville School - (UK), Lycée Paul Moreau, Reunion Island (France), Ies Alonso de Madrigal (Spain), Liceo Scientifico G Berto (Italy)

Some young podcasters

Learning how to podcast

Using Moodle
Our Moodle contains a podcasting tutorial to help all students and teachers in our schools learn how to create and publish their own podcasts.


Supporting Applications

The blog used for ideas sharing.

The Wideboard
This application is used as an easy share medium for all in the partnership. This product provided for eTwinning is like an electronic notice board on which students post files, images and notes.

NEW - Podcasts now available on Loudblog


Other Multimedia Exchanges

Photo Stories and Videos

Ashdown Forest - produced by a Sackville students and his dog

Video blogs - Sackville introduce themselves and talk about the project


Link to the Lycée Paul Moreau podcasting site

 

 

 

 

Students talk about their podcasting experiences

Click the image to play

 

 

The 2007/08 Podcast Project

The Polar Year

Podcasts
RSS Feeds
(drag the feed icon into your reader or copy and paste the code)

feed icon Mrs Barden's war and more (9 episodes)
feed icon Christmas podcasts (10 episodes)

Video Podcast (Vidcast) produced by students as part of our local environment project

A screenshot from our second video podcast

feed icon Our learning environment

feed icon NEW - Science experiments exchange


Comparing and Sharing our Environments

Google Earth
Lycée Paul Moreau have linked their first podcast to Google earth. Audio clips and images are linked to place markers.
Reunion linked podcast - right click and download the file, next open and run file (Google Earth must be installed).

The Sackville (right click and save file) Google Earth environmental tour with images, video and voice.


Individual Podcasts
The feed above will give access to all our podcasts but the individual episodes are below.

Vidcast 'Our School Environment' made by students aged 11 and 12 years
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3 - A Science project to compare organisms in our different environments
Reunion Island Students contribute
Part 4
Part 5


Curriculum Support

To support the history curriculum and share past experiences with our partners and the local community, UK students have recorded the experiences of older people in our town.

Mrs Barden's story - episode 1
Mrs Barden's story - episode 2

Mrs Rhone's story

Memories of events in the 1940s recorded on a PDA


Cultural Exchange

Reunion students introduce themselves and talk about the project.

Bichiques - Reunion students talk about their unique fishing industry with accompanying local folk music.

Older students from the UK make a contemporary music show.

Traditional music from Spain

Ávila, Spain today and 50 years ago. Podcast investigating the changes over half a century.

Ávila, Spain now and then by Avaro. More about the changes in this town in central Spain.


The Christmas Podcasts 2006 - archived

Click the image to hear the work done by the students from all the partner schools.

Updated - January 8, 2008 15:25  

Moodle

British Council - eTwinning

Contact - N J FALK