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My goal is to provide my students with an alternative way to express their learning beyond paper and pencil, written response, or multiple-choice questions.

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Assessments through Podcasts

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School:
Manatee Middle 
Subject:
Language Arts 
Teacher:
Da-Anna Paul 
Students Impacted:
70 
Grade:
6 
Date:
August 22, 2022

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Publix SuperMarkets, Inc - $1,987.85

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Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 59

Research from the Intercultural Development Research Association supports that one of the best ways to assess student learning is to have students talk about what they are learning. In addition, the newly released BEST standards add a redefined emphasis on the oral component of learning. Lastly, my core classroom philosophies are built on student centered and collaborative learning. Podcasting is the result of all these elements combined. While we couldn’t start as early as we intended, students in my class were introduced to podcasts at the beginning of the year in small doses and we have been slowly integrating the process in our classroom through various mediums. We started simply by using their student computers to record simple conversations answering one literary analysis question to ending with recording a full production podcast including editing, audio engineering, and digital content design. We also used Listenwise to listen to sample podcasts and generate ideas on how to create our own podcast. Through this process students have been able to learn new skills and focus on their strengths. Most importantly, I have been able to gain a clear understanding of what my students have retained over the course of the school year about writing, poetry, theme, central idea, figurative language, and argumentation. A personal victory for me in this journey is that my students have also built up their confidence in not only their academic skills, but also their self-esteem. A bonus of this process is that a couple of my students have been inspired to start their own podcast and have already purchased their own podcasting gear based on their classroom experience. After such a grueling year, podcasting has helped us finish the school year with exciting energy even as we crawl to the finish line.

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Sound Trap Podcast Display Screen

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Students working at the recording stations

 

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Students working together to edit podcast on Sound

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Students working together to create podcast thumbn

 

Original Grant Overview

Goal

My goal is to provide my students with an alternative way to express their learning beyond paper and pencil, written response, or multiple-choice questions.  

 

What will be done with my students

Phase 1: I will start by introducing students to well executed educational podcasts made specifically for students through the Listen Wise subscription. This will provide the exposure students need to fully understand how to effectively create a podcast while practicing academic skills.

Phase 2: Students will work through the entire process of starting their own podcast, working through naming the podcast and creating an opening and closing jingle with Sound Trap subscription. The podcast content will be based on discussion questions tied to the current text and the Unit Essential Questions in their McGraw-Hill textbook.

A new podcast will be created at the end of each text to allow students a chance to connect the skills and content to the standards through an organic conversation. They will be guided by a list of questions to ensure that they are hitting the expected targets.  

 

Benefits to my students

Students will benefit from this grant because it gives them another option to prove that they're learning. This gives students who thrive on oral presentation an opportunity to gain confidence in their knowledge. It also helps them remain connected with the advances in technology while practicing grade level skills and soft skills they use in almost every industry. These podcasts will benefit not only my students, but students in our school and across our district as the conversations are shared with others. These conversations will be beneficial skills reviews as well as models of effective collaborative conversations in a secondary classroom. 

 

Budget Narrative

The budget includes equipment need for high quality audio and video production of the podcast. It also includes the software needed to edit podcasts and the subscription to the educational podcast library that will expose the students to well executed education podcasts. 

 

Items

# Item Cost
1 Rode RODECaster Pro Podcast Production Studio $488.88
2 Rode PodMic Dynamic Podcasting Microphones (Pair) with StreamEye BOOMARM1 Microphone Boom Arms, Studio-Graded TH-02 Headphones, XLR Cables and StreamEye Polishing Cloth $269.99
3 Casematix Waterproof Mixer Carry Case Compatible with Rode Rodecaster Pro Podcast Production Studio and Adapter - Hard Carry Case With Padded Foam $79.99
4 Listenwise Subscription $399.00
5 Soundtrap Subscription $350.00
6 Logitech Mevo Start All-in-One Full HD Live Streaming Camera with Mevo Table Web Cam Stand $399.99
  Total: $1,987.85

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