Slides from the Workshop on podcasting by Pam Burrage at the Teaching Group Conference 2012.

1. Podcasting
Enhancing
teaching?

2. Learning styles
Audio learners
Visual learners
Kinesthetic Learners

3. Audio MP3

4. Student friendly
Their world, their
technology

5. Student friendly
No writing required

6. Student friendly
Multitasking

7. Student friendly
Nobody knows they are working

8. Student friendly
Repetition
• Take it at their
own pace
• Easy revising

9. Movie

10. Even Better!
Uses colour key for visual learners

11. Even Better!
Makes it easier to understand
Types
of
sample

12. Even Better!
Shows spelling of key terms
Narrative Denotive Technical
Language Games Language Games Language Games

13. Even Better!
Spelling sociologists names
Alive or dead?

14. Even Better!
Uses pictures a prompts
Looking glass self Play stage

15. Ideas!
Can record in the
classroom

16. Ideas!
Talk through a mind
map

17. Ideas!
Use instead of essay
homework

18. Ideas!
Use for absentees

19. Ideas!
Develop an audio
/movie textbook.
Use it to attract
students for next
year

20. Ideas!
Get class to
prepare
revision
resources for
each other

21. Ideas!
Record and share an
Argument / evaluation

22. Ideas!
Student can
prepare
youTube clips

23. What do I need?
Audio
•Computer +
microphone
•Free software for
recording / converting

24. The Technical Part
Audacity
• Export as wav files for windows media
• Export as MP3 files for ipods

25. What do I need?
Movie
• Windows media
free download
• The audio part
• Pictures &
photos

26. The Technical Part
• Load windows media
• Drop in audio file
• Drop in power point
• Synchronise the two
More advanced get Studio Plus from
Pinnacle

27. What BSA Teaching Group can offer
• Series of podcasts for A level students
• Based on main textbooks
• More to come?
Social Theory
1.Functionalism
2.Marxism
3.Feminism
4.Interactionism
5.Postmodernism

28. Where next?
• Teaching group Sociology ap?
• We have a twitter account
• We tried facebook but wasn’t successful
• Your ideas?