Podcasting in Schools - or the Wendy Scattergood effect
I’ve just come to the end of a series of days working with children at Reaside School in Frankley in Birmingham. Four of us were briefed through Stan’s Cafe (I love Stan’s proper use of the apostrophe) and creative partnerships to use podcasting to tap into the children’s imaginations and their skills at evolving and structuring stories.
You can listen to and see all the work the children created at a website we have established for this and future work: www.frankleytalk.com
Early work was focussed on where the children live – the streets and neighbourhoods of Frankley and what this means to them. One piece that popped out of this was a podcast on renaming an imaginary street. Most of Frankley’s streets are named for either monarchs or British islands. The year 5 group plumped to name their new street after someone they know, one of their nan’s. So Wendy Scattergood (‘tis truly her name) has became a symbol of the things that grown ups do which children appreciate:
February 15th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
[...] Last year I had a great time working with Kate Chapman and others in Frankley – helping children at Reaside School use podcasting to develop some varied radio dramas. Kate’s grown up job is as a radio drama producer for the BBC here in brum. She’s just been in touch to tell us there’s a whole slew of new stuff coming out of the Mailbox over the next few weks. This is what you should listen out for: [...]