Create a Podcast

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences.
• ISTE Student Standard Creative Communicator – Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

• will create and publish a podcast designed to share an idea with a specific audience.

1. Introduce Activity – Discussion questions might be: Listen to these examples…what do they have in common? (They are all podcasts!) What’s a podcast? How do you consume a podcast? What equipment do you need for a podcast? How do you access podcasts?
2. Demonstrate how to build a podcast within Soundtrap:
   1. Open up the Podcast Template
   2. Listen as a group.
   3. Explain what each track does and why it is important.
   4. Show basic editing functions (fade in/out, looping, volume, effects)
3. Assign/break into groups
4. Build outline/script for the podcast.
5. Record podcasts.
6. Share via social media and/or class website. 

Curricular Connections

A podcast can be adapted for any and all classroom contents and ages. For example, in a history class, the task could be to create a podcast to a student’s hero from the Civil War. In a science class, have students address their podcasts to their favorite scientist. This lesson could apply in any course, but it is most closely aligned with Language Arts, Information & Communications Technology, and Visual & Performing Arts.