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Cool Tools IV - February 2, 2008

 

Podcasting to Improve Vocabulary Development

Anne Bubnic, CTAP Region IV County Specialist, Marin County

Allyson Schut, Kentfield School District, Marin County

 

Do you want to improve your student test scores in Vocabulary?  Make learning engaging and fun through VocabuCasting and let your students be the stars.  We’ll include the complete process for finding a definition, creating sentences using words, researching images that best demonstrates the meaning of the word and voice recording. The final product (words, sentences, images, and audio recordings) will be uploaded to a web page and made available on the Internet. This project can be used across the curriculum and at all grade levels. Also appropriate for ELL and Special Ed teachers.

 

 

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 Workshop Agenda

 

1.  Intro Activities

2.  Sesame Street "Word on The Street" Video Podcast 

3.  Why Podcast in Education?

4.  Discussion of Traditional Methods of Teaching Vocabulary

5.  K-12 Educational Technology Showcase Video (Vocabucasting)

6.  Getting Started with VocabuCasting

• Learning Outcomes
• Equipment Needs

7.  Group Activity: Word Assignments

8.  Group Activity:  Definitions

9.  Discussion: Images and Word Associations

10. Group Activity: Finding Images

11. Group Activity: Make a Podcast

• Bumpers
• Make a Podcast
• Saving and Sharing

 

 

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Vocabucasting - Learning Outcomes

 

• Students will expand their research, vocabulary, listening and speaking skills.
• Students will communicate with a worldwide audience.
• Students will learn about sound and work with electronic media.

 

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Workshop Resources

All of our workshop handouts and tutorials are located here.

 

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Acknowledgement:  Special thanks to Randy Kolset, 5th Grade Teacher at De Portola Elementary School, Saddleback Valley Unified School Distict (Orange County, California) for generously sharing his experience, materials and resources for this workshop.

 

 

 

 

 

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