Friday, November 21, 2008

Success!

Our first episode of the Communicast for the 2008 - 2009 school year was published yesterday, November 20, 2008. Although we were behind schedule, the efforts of the students clearly showed in the quality of the podcast.

This podcast is a group effort, and I want to thank the people involved in the project. First, thanks to Valerie Howard, the computer teacher at South Philadelphia High School, for being the co-sponsor of the podcast. Next, the student podcasters: Shaheed, Jasman, Yolonda, Maria, Joshua, Stacey, Michael, Kahlil, and Imene. Working behind the scenes are the Digital Service Fellows: Brandon and Tiani. I want to thank them for their help in working with the students as they wrote their scripts and practiced their speaking parts. They also worked with Imene, who produced the theme song.

I'm hoping that some of the students will add comments to this post, and describe how they feel, now that they are published podcasters.

I'm already looking forward to the next episode. I want the students to take more responsibility for the work, including some of the editing. I also hope that eventually, they'll work with some of the podcasters from last year (elementary school students) and collaborate on their podcast episodes.

But for now, we want to celebrate the successful posting of this episode, which is Communicast 7. To access the podcast, please go here:

http://podcast.phila.k12.pa.us

or here:

http://podcast.phila.k12.pa.us/weblog/440_communicast/

As the students said, "The podcast is in, and we're out!!"

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow!! As I listened to our podcast I thought everyone did a good job. I thought I did a good job also. I look forward to doing another podcast next month. We haven’t selected the next topic yet. The next one will be even better.




-Kahlil-

Anonymous said...

While watching and listening to our podcast, I felt excited that it turned out really well. I had lots of fun working with everybody. The students and I felt comfortable doing this podcast. Even though we haven’t decided what the new segment will be next month, I can’t wait to do another.

-Imene

Anonymous said...

I think that everyone did great on their pod cast. My two favorite ones were Kahlil who talked about the Phillies and Imene who talked about Obama. I thought that they did a great job. I also want to thank Mr. Karl for introducing us to pod cast.

Anonymous said...

I think that everyone did great on their pod cast. My two favorite ones were Kahlil who talked about the Phillies and Imene who talked about Obama. I thought that they did a great job. I also want to thank Mr. Karl for introducing us to pod cast.