Francis Murphy
The Podcast Club
St Ita’s Primary School
St Ita’s is a co-educational primary school in Belfast. It has around 700 pupils with 3 classes in each year group, including 2 nursery classes.
Francis is the Head of ICT and Art and teaches P4. He has started a Podcast Club through use of C2k NewsDesk and this is greatly enjoyed by 15 – 20 of the P4 – P7 pupils.
In this clip Francis tells us about this afterschool club and the effect it had on the pupil’s appreciation of cross-curricular learning through Music, Art and ICT.
Key learning
Pupils learn to navigate and use NewsDesk effectively
Show an appreciation of an audience and how to share the podcast
Develop the ability to plan, record and edit audio using software available on the C2k network
Participate in a range of creative tasks to plan the podcast, creating a name,
Points to consider:
What audio equipment have you available?
Do the pupils participating know how to upload to Google Drive?
Think about the room to record in, will it have other afterschool clubs nearby adding background noise?
Storyboard the podcast before recording providing cross-curricular links in Literacy, Music and Art
Use iPads/tablets that have a voice recorder
Use examples of recorded content from NewsDesk to demonstrate the recording process
Save recorded content in a shared Google Drive/One Drive folder that can be accessed by all classes to share completed podcast and any relevant drafts