Audio Creation & Podcasting
Podcasting is now a part of our everyday language. The word itself can be confusing but it's all about making radio programmes.
We use a free programme called Audacity which makes manipulating audio as easy as editing text in a wordprocessor.
Click logo below to play an example
As well as producing podcasts we can also combine audio production with digital photography and produce a multimedia presentation that covers a wide range of skills.
This in-school session is for a small group of around 12 children for a whole day.
This is taken from the governments 'ICT in Literacy' document...
Lower KS2
MP3 commentary
Description:
Produce audio commentaries to be played back by an individual on a portable audio device as they move around a particular location. Examples:
- a guide to an art exhibition in which artists describe their pictures and sculptures;
- a guide to accompany a local history walk with descriptive and explanatory speech pertinent to specific points on the walk
Upper KS2
Podcast
Description:
Take any digitally recorded audio outcomes from pupils' work and share with a wider audience via the Internet. For example, as part of the Y6 journalistic writing unit pupils may produce a radio news bulletin and augment it with interviews, adverts and other types of text appropriate to the medium of radio.
Audio files may be simply uploaded to a website so that they may be downloaded manually by listeners. Alternatively, if regular episodes are to be broadcast, have a podcast feed set up so that listeners may subscribe and have episodes delivered to them automatically. For example, a regular radio podcast through which a single class share examples of poetry, audio plays, interviews, stories, reports/recounts, advertisements etc.
Cost of the day is £225 + vat