Our podcast team has finished with our first English media project!
Dear NMS community,
In Mrs. Adler’s English classes 7ABCD, we had a really fun project making podcast book reviews about books from our NMS library. In class we selected for you the top three or four from each class (Daniel, Gnima, Laurin, Aidan, Lilli, Lindsay, Anna and Alyssa). Listen to our podcasts to hear sound effects, summaries, and stories. Learn about the themes, setting and characters in the stories and decide whether you would like to read this book yourself.
(We have only used the first name of the student to anonymize to a degree who the “pod-caster” is in line with our new privacy laws.)
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Here are the podcasts:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Amy by Mary Hooper
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman
The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
Twist of Gold by Michael Mopurgo
Wings by Aprilynne Pike
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
{tab The Student’s Commments}
So, what did the students think about the project?
Here are some of their answers to three points:
Evaluate your Work
Personally, this project was unlike anything I’d done before. I was used to presenting but not recording. I’ve never been good at editing or at any kind of technical production. The writing part of this project was no problem but for me recording was quite stressful. I didn’t want to stop recording so I tried doing it all in one go.
I am very happy with my work in this project. I finished reading the book long before the due date because it was interesting, So I feel I got a head start. Recording was no problem as I enjoy reading out loud very much.
I thought my work was ok. It was not that easy to talk for 8 minutes and make it interesting.
What would make work easier?
I don’t think there is much to improve because even the more usually noisy students helped the most in the project.
If you were to repeat this project, how can it be improved in your opinion?
It was a little awkward and embarrassing but I don’t think that’s something you can change. So, overall I think it was a fun project.
The technical part of how to edit a podcast would have been useful.
I would have liked a little more instruction about the rubric for evaluation before we recorded. Many of us were not aware of the chatty atmosphere we were supposed to create.
I think I could have spoken more clearly on my podcast.
I would have needed more time.
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Students of 7ABCD & Nihal Adler