PFL ... Podcasts for language learning
The HS PFL has embarked on a podcasting journey in the past few weeks which has focused on listening, writing and speaking skills. Their podcasts provide such relevant material for a real audience! As the students are foreign, the podcasts are about how they see the Brazilian culture compared to their own. Their podcasts are very interesting reference material for other foreigners and also for Brazilians to understand their culture from a different point of view. This is the process that the students went through to create the podcasts: # Learned about the podcasting style. # Prepared a script. # Recorded the podcast with music loops. # Embedded their podcast as an mp3 player on their classroom site. The next steps will involve exploring those podcasts with real audience feedback. Students will listen to each other's podcasts and make comments, generate discussions. For next semester, we may try a real podcasting subscription that will allow automatic feeds to iTun...