1. Title IID Grants
Digital Destinations In History
Using Podcasting to Engage Students in Social Studies Instruction
Office of Educational Technology
8201 Rockaway Blvd, Ozone Park NY 11416
AGENDA
February 12, 2011 9:00 – 3:00
Session 1 ( 9:00-9:15) Welcome and Housekeeping Issues
(Time cards, equipment sign-out computers and headsets, Preview to the day)
Session 2 (9:15- 9:30 ) Introduction to podcasting
● Podcasting Power Point
● Explaining the parts of a podcast Pre-production-Production-Post Production
Session 3 (9:30 – 10:45) Demonstrating of creating a podcast from a First Person Narrative
● Exploring the elements of a narrative (timeline, setting, characters and dialogue,
● “The attack on Perl Harbor” http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pearl.htm , http://
www.ibiblio.org/pha/myths/radar/mcdonald_2.html
● Sources for Narrative accounts, http://www.history.noaa.gov/ , http://
www.snowwowl.com/histcuster.html
● Creating a script group
● Using the Podcasting planner
● Adding Music and sound effects.
● Exporting as an MP3
Session 4 (10:45 - 12:00) Pre production
● Identifying your topic from your curriculum
● Writing your Narrative Use resources
● Converting to a script
● Locating music and sound effects
● Finalizing your storyboard
LUNCH 12:00-1:00
Session 6 (1:00-2:30) Independent Work
Session 7 (2:30-2:40) Exporting your MP3

2. Session 9 (2:40- 3:00) Closing Evaluation