Sharing Student Work with Writeboard
A couple of weeks ago on this post I showed you how 4th grade students have been working on Weather Podcasts. What do you do with them when you are finished? How do you publish them? Post them to a Writeboard so that parents and grandparents can see them and even make comments. Using a Writeboard to share student work is great for any project, actually. Take a look at Mr. Golden’s Weather Writeboard (password = room8) and be sure to leave a comment for his students! Another way to share podcasts is to make your own podcast website using iWeb. Just choose the Podcast Template and drag your student’s podcasts into the placeholders. I’d be happy to show you how to set that up if you let me know.
Fourth grade students at Trevvett Elementary worked on Weather podcasts today. I gave them a GarageBand Template and a folder of pictures to use which you can download 
Fifth graders at Chamberlayne Elementary were rock stars today. They made rock podcasts with photos of the different types of rocks jammin’ out on electric guitars. They added their own voiceovers to describe the rocks and how they are formed, then they chose a musical soundtrack. They didn’t finish today, but you can see what they started on by clicking 
Ms. Stewart, 3rd Grade teacher at Holladay, found a creative way to share a fund raising project with the staff at her school – she created a podcast in GarageBand. In the video she uses photos, voiceovers, and animal sound effects to show teachers how to collect money for Maymont’s Animal Appreciation Program. You can see how much more effective this is than simply sending an email or making an announcement. Emily, thanks for going above and beyond the call of duty for the sake of Maymont’s animals! You can take a look at her podcast by clicking 
In third grade today at Holladay Elementary we made “Amazing Animals” podcasts (SOL 3.4). I gave them a folder of pictures to use to show hibernation, migration, camouflage, and mimicry. Then I showed them how to add the photos to the podcast track, record their voices on the vocals track, and find a song for the jingles track. We only had time to do the first topic, hibernation, but they will continue the project on their own and at a later date I will post some of the finished podcasts. You can see my sample