This professional development course is open to educators in all roles, subjects and grades who are looking for the skills and confidence to successfully add podcast production to your learning environment to both engage students in learning and support critical 21st Century skill development. 

In this hands-on course you will: 

• Make your own audio story for instructional use 
• Develop Common Core standards-aligned lesson plans in which students create audio stories to demonstrate learning 
• Develop tools and strategies for assessing and providing effective feedback for student media projects 

Learning Objectives: 

• Master the basics of audio production needed to make your own audio content to enhance instruction and support student learning, including: 
  • Choosing the right equipment 
  • Writing a script 
  • Capturing and adding quality sound 
  • Using editing software to sequence and trim tracks as well as add music and soundscape 
  • Learn how to create lesson plans for classroom audio projects that align with Common Core and other curriculum standards to ensure that time spent producing audio results in student learning you want to see 
  • Develop strategies for allocating and organizing resources to best facilitate audio projects in a classroom environment 
  • Learn how to effectively assess student audio 
  • Understand the ways copyright law and fair use impact audio production and learn how to locate open content you and your students can freely use in production 
  • Understand how a producer’s bias, intent, and production choices impact the messages communicated by audio 
  • Learn about federal laws protecting student privacy and safety online and how to best address these issues when making and sharing audio projects