Week 12: Thing 17
I haven't listened to many podcasts, which is funny, because I am an avid audiobook listener. Part of the reason is because I don't have a new ipod which will play the podcasts... that tells you how old my ipod is! Hahaha! I really found the slave narratives at the Library of Congress compelling. The gentleman that I listened to was the grandson of a man who was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson. As I listen to podcasts like those, I feel horror and fascination all at once. I really appreciated the fact that the LOC provides a transcript... that makes it much easier to find a compelling segment in a larger podcast to share with my students. The ability of technology to connect us to the past is really quite amazing.
The library podcast that I found is called The Fireside Chat. This is a podcast produced in Australia by teen readers, for teen readers. I listened to several podcasts and enjoyed them very much. The format was a little unexpected, because I expected to hear teens reading a script they had written in their English class. But rather, it was an interview format. The interviewer is very energetic and very kind and very good at drawing out the teenagers. Some of the "chatters" were very quiet and had to be drawn out, but the interviewer was very good at that. I really liked that format because it was good interaction. I think it would be fun to have a book review panel at a middle school to review books... if you could figure out a way to control the "talking over" that often happens with teenagers, it could be really fabulous! It would be fun to share those on the school website, or on the library website.
Tempted: a review by Tamara
No comments:
Post a Comment