Podcast Management System
Podcasts are quickly becoming a great medium to communicate information to students. Imagine having the ability to broadcast a lesson to all of your students that they can listen to and watch over and over again.
Features
- Distribute podcasts to any playable device
- Multiple levels of administration
- Teacher area to allow for different classes or preps
- Unique student landing page that contains all their podcasts
- Scheduled podcast distribution
- Keep your podcasts private or share them with the community
- Complete reporting statistics
Schools and Districts
K12 Learn's Podcast Management is ideally suited for schools and districts that want to engage their students with technology but do not want to concern themselves with the technical issues but spend their efforts on the integration. Some reasons for our solution are:
- Everyone of your students in a class gets the same information
- Utilize class time for inquiry based learning, small group or other activities.
- Recycle learning materials from year to year.
- Enable student learning through technology most students already own.
.Quick Ideas to Get You Started.
- Create an audio file of your personal introduction to parents. During the Welcome Back night for school, demonstrate to your parents how to subscribe to your podcast and let them know that your introduction is available for them to learn more about you there.
- If you are making plans to differentiate a lesson create podcasts describing the various activities that are available to students. Using a laptop cart or an inexpensive MP3 player, have your audio directions available. Students can listen to the podcasts as few or as many times as they need to, and you will be freed up from given directions verbally giving you more time to monitor student learning and provide additional support.
- During vacations, parents often seek opportunities for students to continue reading. Sometimes, for parents, we just aren't sure what books our kids should read. Help us out, by creating podcasts of suggested books to read by creating audio files of short book reviews, kids can listen to them and choose a book they would like to read. That will help kids have a choice and parents keep them reading!
- Creating ways to capture student questions and thinking can be a great way to assess and revisit big questions during a unit. Digitally capture audio of student conversations while they explore new topics. Revisit those conversations and develop questions for students to revisit as you complete a unit. They will be able to reflect on their learning and connect what they knew before and after the unit. Expand on this by having students capture their own reflections on what they have learned during each lesson within a unit, posts those to the K12 Learn system and parents can hear about what their kids are learning constantly! Now that's a way to help the dinner conversation get started! .