Does Podcasting Enhance Oral Literacies?

The image “http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/94439528_af1ce3378d.jpg?v=0” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.I met Jane Nicholls while working in Dunedin, New Zealand a few months ago, and was so impressed with the enthusiasm of teachers there.  The job seemed to be “fun” for them.

Jane is currently researching the benefits of podcasting and has asked me to forward a request for participation in her research project.

*** ICT U Can!: A request for help:

I am currently undertaking research looking at the question:

In what ways does podcasting enhance oral literacies?

I have been gathering data in my own context but I would love to hear what other teachers have found when using podcasting in their classroom programme and add voices from further a field into my final write up.

I hope that you can help her with this very important question.

5 thoughts on “Does Podcasting Enhance Oral Literacies?”

  1. How can podcasting “if done in a learning environment” not enhance oral literacies? It’s relatively new technology in which uses a global audience. This creates a entirely different form of the literacy.

  2. Hi,
    My name is Sylvie and I am in charge of the program of phonological awareness in the francophone schools of British Columbia in Canada. We have produced a podcast on the Borel-Maisonny gestures and it is a very useful tool for the teachers and students as well. We are now in the process of putting the differents subtests for the phonological awareness evaluation on podcast. We feel podcasting is very useful in the schools. We also used the podcast: French for kids by kids produced by a teacher in Louisiana as model for our teachers willing to podcast.
    Would it be possible to have access to your research once completed?

  3. Hi David
    Thanks for sharing my request. This online collaboration stuff is so cool. I have already received 12 examples of how podcasting is enhancing oral language from all over the globe in the few hours since I made the request!

    Sylvie, if you go to my blog http://ictucan.blogspot.com I will have a link to the research once it is completed which should be early next year. I would be interested in accessing your podcast, is it public on the web?

    Thanks again David

  4. at the festival of literacies i worked a series of literacy practitioner knowledge exchange podcasts. we chose podcasts because we hear from many literacy practitioners that practitioner research and writing is inaccessible to them because they have no time to read it – or write it. we wondered if having information available through audio would help. we all know that there is a lot of good work happening and that literacy practitioners hold a wealth of information and the question is always how to get it into the public discourse.
    http://www.literaciesoise.ca/podcast.htm

    the festival funding ran out before they could publicize the podcasts so we do not know how effective they would have been.

    at literacies we are planning to podcast articles for the same reason. we will try to evaluate their effectiveness as a tool to communicate about research and practitioner knowledge before our funding runs out.

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