KleinPod: Podcasting in Klein ISD

Ok, I admit it. I fully wanted to give the class a current event today and tell them to leave me alone so that I could get grading done. The end of the term is this week, and I have a huge back log of papers to grade. It was a bad day. My external hard drive died and with it died all of my material for my English IVA final review which I was going to podcast. I am still upset about it. I’m… devastated. It wasn’t just all of my podcasting material, but all of my school assignments as well. I adopted my personal hard drive for school use this year because there isn’t enough room on my school computer’s allocated space for all of my materials. At this point, it’s all gone. I’m desperate enough to pay someone to retrieve the information for me. Even if I do manage to save it, I’m not sure that I’ll get it back in enough time to record my review since the test is Friday.

For the test review, I have decided to keep the script format, but break it down into sections with commercials, just so I can give the kids a break. In the future, the kids will create their own commercials, but for now, I’m doing it. I had high hopes for this. I’ll update later when I know more.

The good news is that with or without a podcaster/podcatcher, my students are going to start working on the first *really real* podcast. It will be an informational series about our school. Each student has paired up with another student to work on a segment.

The segments are:
What is Vistas?
What kind of students go to Vistas?
What does a typical classroom at Vistas look like?
What does a typical day at Vistas look like?
My Vistas experiences – interview a graduate, a student, a parent, and someone who wants to come to Vistas.

They are so excited! And secretly, so am I!