Cultural week. Relevant women throughout history. Podcasts Project.

Hello students, today we are going to talk about the cultural week.

During that week and the previous one we will develop a full project on relevant women throughout history creating podcasts.

In the following document you will find all the information about the cultural week project and the podcast creation.



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Here you have the chanell of this subject (Irene´s ICTs):

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I addition, I have created a playlist Called “Cultural Week Project” where we will upload all the podcasts about relevant women throughout history:

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Finally, I have created an audio to welcome you and give you some brief instructions about our project. In the document that I have uploaded (at the beginning of the entry) you have all the information about the project and the podcasts that I explained the other day.



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Song by Ketsa music.


My podcasting experience (for teachers).

Learn how to create a podcast was a hard a process because the tools that I have used weren´t intuitive at all. I had to see several tutorials to understand how to do the things that I wanted to create. In addition, it is important to mention that I hadn´t worked with audio editing programs before, so the choice of programs has been a bit random. Because of this, I chose the virtual classroom programs and those recommended by peers.

I had to see several tutorials to understand how to do the things I wanted to create. Almost all the problems arose with the manipulation of the audio recording and the background music. Audacity is a professional program that needs a small learning curve before carrying out any project.

Thanks to the following videos I understood some basic tools such as reducing the sound of an audio little by little, how to reduce the volume in a selected strip of audio and how to trim an audio track.

These are the tutorials in Spanish:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ovBvOey2eo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQgAq2OWzE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_amOmI1ogiU

About the SoundCloud tool, I think that they will improve their website including a tutorial about how to start using it, because it was a little bit confusing at the beginning. 

If you want to know the steps I have followed, go to the document at the top of the entry. It includes all the steps to follow and the programs or tools to carry them out.

To conclude, working podcasts with students is a difficult task since there are many elements to take into account to carry it out. It is not impossible, but it is necessary to be clear about all the steps to follow and to simplify the instructions and tasks to be developed as much as possible.