12 Reasons to Publish Student Podcasts to a Global Audience
Let’s give our students the power to create incredible things.
Recently I was asked how I could justify the publishing of student work. What was the educational value in sharing student content on podcasts that can be listened to throughout the world?
That’s a fair question, and it deserves a thoughtful answer. Because we don’t have to publish student-created content. Students can learn a great deal and build strong communication skills simply by recording and creating audio content that stays within the LMS, the building, or the local learning community.
So this post won’t waste time defending the value of using voice as a medium of communication, a vehicle for the design process, or a means of multimedia production. I’ll assume that most educators are already on board with that.
In fact, I’ll try hard to leave out any arguments that could just as easily be applied to in-house recording activities.
Instead, I’ll zero in on the question at hand.
What’s the educational value of publishing student podcasts?
For the points that follow, I’ll lump together three expressions of student podcasts:
- those created collectively as a class…
