Creator: Spreaker Online Radio | visit site
Grade Range: K - 11
Create a live Internet radio show -- free -- with Spreaker! This super easy online tool creates podcasts instantly for you to share with your own URL, on Facebook, Google +, Soundcloud, Twitter, or add to the Spreaker website. Follow others, or invite others to follow your podcasts. With a click of a button you are creating a live podcast. To create a podcast you do not need Flash. However, there are several tutorials, and these tutorials require flash. There is a free version and a more deluxe premium version. This review is for the free version.
In the Classroom
Enjoy a live radio show from your classroom! Publish written pieces of writing, science reports, social studies reports, and any other reports you would like to share. Create a New Book or Book Review podcast for the media center. Link to your podcast URL on your class website. Publish directions to projects, explanations for difficult concepts, or even a radio show of you reading your favorite books for your students. Have upper elementary students take turns reading aloud for a podcast aimed at little reading buddies in kindergarten. Allow students to podcast to "pen pals" in faraway places. Record your school choir, orchestra group, poetry club, or drama club doing their best work or dramatic readings of Shakespeare soliloquies. Take your school newspaper to a new level with recorded radio articles. Be sure to include interviews with students, teachers, principals, parents, authors, artists, and almost anyone. In younger grades, use to save an audio portfolio of reading fluency, expression, or to aid with running records or even include writing. Be sure do this regularly throughout the year to analyze growth. Have fun at Halloween with your Halloween station filled with favorite spooky stories! Welcome your students to a new school year by sending them your message. Create messages for classmates who move away. Bring your foreign language classes an extra resource of your pronunciations whenever they need more practice. ESL/ELL, special education classes can often benefit from the extra explanations, practice, and elaborated instructions given at their own pace. The possibilities are endless! The site itself is a "web 2.0," social networking style site, so some schools may have it blocked. Ask about unblocking just YOUR teacher account so you can have students access it while at school and under your supervision.
At Home
Share your child’s favorite stories and reading progress with friends and family. Encourage Grandma and Grandpa to read your child’s favorite stories to play over and over any time. Record your child’s best musical instrument performances as well as debate, speech clubs, and foreign language progress. Help your child pick an area of study and add different programs to further explain the topic. While you are at work or traveling, have your voice recorded with your favorite stories, songs, and lullabies for your little one.
Tags
communication, podcasts, radio,
Subjects
Character Education, Current Events, Drama, Earth Science/Geology, Engineering/Technology, English, ESL/ELL, French, German, Gifted, Language Arts, Mind Stretchers, Music, Professional, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Social Studies, Special Education, TeachersFirst Edge, World Languages, World Languages, Writing,