MFLE guide to podcasting

 

A Guide to Podcasting for Teacher of Modern Languages is a series of films created by Adam Sutcliffe for LTScotland which are divided into the following sections:

• What is a podcast?

• Reasons for teachers

• Reasons for students 

• Curriculum for Excellence

• General reasons

• Ideas and examples

• Equipment

• Downloading Audacity

• The setup

• Recording and exporting

• Uploading to TypePad

• Audio on the go

• Podsafe music and sound

• VoiceThread and Voki

Each clip can be downloaded along with its transcript and be viewed on a computer or iPod. For anyone interested in learning more about why podcasting has such huge potential in modern foreign languages I suggest you take the time to have a look at this excellent overview. It WILL be worth it.