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14 02 2008

Improving literacy through podcasting

Posted by: learningconversations in e-Learning commentary

I’m involved in a project at the moment at a K-12 school in country NSW. The project aims to improve some of their indigenous students’ literacy levels through student-generated podcasting. I believe this is a powerful exercise as it gives these students a ‘voice’. They plan to publish the podcasts on a website and gain critique / comment from students in a UK school. The first attachment is a news article from their local paper (yes, it’s a ’staged’ photo!). I recently noticed another project on indigenous students’ use of blogs in an article from a Qld. newspaper (2nd attachment).
1st article (pdf file)
2nd article (click below to enlarge)

Tags: literacy, podcasting

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4 Responses to “Improving literacy through podcasting”

1.   Linda’s Blog Page » Blog Archive » Improving literacy through Podcasting Says:
   February 17th, 2008 at 4:42 am

   [...] posted information about a project he is involved in where Indigenous students will work in groups to create a Podcast. This project [...]

2.   Michelle’s Personal Learning Space » Improving Literacy Through Podcasting Says:
   March 6th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

   [...] think the project that Matthew is involved in is quite interesting as all the reasons for using podcasting within education that [...]

3.   biancaritky Says:
   March 26th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

   i believe the notion of using podcasting as a means of improving litracy is extremely useful. Many a times there are too few teachers who are able to devote their time to going to the country to help the less unfortunate people like the aboriginals. Therefor using podcasting allows teachers to help but not have to move all the way to the country. i also think that podcasting would be very exciting for the aboriginals too, especially when they have a reply saying that they are improving and doing well. Even more so if the reply comes from another country. I think that this example is an excellent way to demonstrate the benifits technology has within classrooms.

4.   Literacy and ICT - Two Peas in a Podcast | eLearning in the Primary School Says:
   June 16th, 2008 at 11:54 am

   [...] times, there have been some great innovations regarding the use of podcasting as a learning tool. Matthew discusses his involvement with a particularly exciting project in country NSW – improving literacy [...]

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