Introduction
This lesson is about learning to use technology to express yourself in a positive way via audio recording, posted on the Internet, and provide useful and interesting content for your peers in the school community.

Goal & Situation
The goal of this lesson is the teach you the production, project management and technical skills needed to complete a student-produced Podcast. You will work in pairs on a team of your peers creating a student radio show as a medium of positive expression.

Audience & Purpose
The purpose of the lesson is to create a medium of self expression and create audio content meaningful to you and your other students at their school.

Steps of the Learning Process

• Work with a group of fellow students to brainstorm appropriate subject matter ideas for the Podcast.
• Work with a partner and divide up the interviews, news casting, etc. among your partner groups so the production work is equally shared.
• Create the rough scripts for the Podcast.
• Record/Edit the Podcast using Apple's Garageband software
• Post audio files to Internet and RSS Feed for publication.
• Download Podcast from iTunes

Standards & Criteria for Success
You will successfully complete the Podcasting experience if you can:

• Demonstrates basic computer skills and is able to complete Podcasting tasks after learning the recording/editing process from the teacher.
• Participate fully in all areas of the Podcast production process.
• Successfully complete their assigned portion of the Podcast.
• Continue to update and maintain the Podcast on a regular basis.

This Unit Designed by :
Nathan Shelley
nathan_shelley@yahoo.com
School of the Epiphany
Archdiocese of San Francisco
San Francisco, California