Part 2: Podcasting
The second project will focus on constructing a response through podcasting, using software such as Audacity or GarageBand. You will integrate narration, music, and sound effects as your construct meaning through modalities that emphasize the auditory rather than the visual. Workshop time is provided, for which you are expected to be prepared and actively engaged. You will need to complete any remaining work outside of class time. See Rubric for more specific details. See MAPS heuristic for more specific details.
Mode |
Genre of the text:
Argument/Opinion constructed through narration, music, and/or sound effects |
Media |
The way in which the text is presented:
Audacity, Garageband |
Audience |
Characteristics of those who will receive your work:
Prospective students (provided grade level) Peers |
Purpose |
Refers to the specific action that a writer aims to accomplish with a piece:
What is the prompt or task you are responding to by creating this piece? What do you want students to demonstrate by completing this project? Would you include elements of genre, writer's craft, analysis? Would you ask the writer to make connections to other books, the real world, or their own lives? Would you focus on creativity or reader-generated topics? You must individually determine the purpose for this project by considering your selected book, mode, media, audience, situation, and individual motivations and interests as a reader and teacher. |
Situation |
Demands of the writing task:
This project will serve as a mentor/sample to guide prospective students in their own design of this project for the same or a different text. It will be shared with peers at the Digital Salon later in the semester. |
Sample Purpose Statements...
Keep in mind that actually writing any of these assignments would require much greater detail than provided. However, you only need to create the essential task/purpose to which you are responding to by creating your project:
Create a podcast that solves a remaining mystery in the book by arguing for a certain outcome.
Create a podcast in the form of a news story that interviews characters from the book in order to show a different perspective to the story.
Create a podcast that solves a remaining mystery in the book by arguing for a certain outcome.
Create a podcast in the form of a news story that interviews characters from the book in order to show a different perspective to the story.
*Create a podcast that investigates an issue raised in the book by using evidence and details to argue for a specific side.
*Create a podcast in the form of a book talk that argues why other students should read this book.