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Learn how to set up a student-led podcast in your library, involve staff from several subject areas, market effectively, what challenges you are likely to face, and how podcasting will benefit the students and school overall.Podcasting from the library is a growing movement.
Podcasting with Youth teaches librarians and educators how to set up, develop, market, and deliver a successful youth-led podcast from their library.
Putting youth in control when interviewing authors and other guests develops their leadership and technical skills and brings new users to the library to engage in a unique library activity. This program can be set up relatively cheaply, and readers will learn how to use the technology required to deliver a podcast. Sound recording equipment, microphones, mixers, and audio files may be intimidating to some librarians and educators; this book quells those fears by explaining the technology in a straightforward, how-to manner. It also includes student input on what podcasters have learned, the challenges they have faced, and their plans for the future.
Author Lucas Maxwell offers many helpful tips to librarians who want to learn how to create a program that puts students in charge and allows them to produce a tangible product that their peers will be interested in.
List of contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Benefits of PodcastingStudent-Created Content
Reach New Audiences
Podcasts Are Flexible
Editing Is Easy
Connects the Students
Screen-Time Reduction
Teaching New Skills
Creates a Safe Environment
It's a Place Where Mistakes Are Okay
Inspires Students to Look Further
Helps Teens Think Differently
Enriches Conversation and Presentation Skills
Creates a Real-World Connection
2. Getting StartedGetting Started in the Classroom
Creating a Name for the Podcast
Making Space Online
Seek Partnership
Creating Shared Expectations
Creating a Schedule
3. Podcasting EquipmentRecording
Recording to an iPad
Recording on a Mobile Device
Recording on a PC
Recording Your Podcast
Editing Your Podcast in Audacity
4. Are You Sitting Down? Interview and Podcasting TipsListen to Other Podcasts
Practice
Interview Tips
5. Uploading and Sharing Your Podcast EffectivelySharing the Podcast
Creating a Profile Picture
Alternatives to Canva
6. Promoting Your PodcastBookmarks
Staff Meetings
Wait to Launch
Create Promotional Materials
Social Media
Add Your Podcast to iTunes
Interact with Like-Minded People
Transcribe Your Podcast
7. Activities to Podcast about in Your LibraryBook Award
Poem in Your Pocket Day
Book Club Events
Conclusion
BibliographyIndex
About the author
Lucas Maxwell is the librarian at Glenthorne High School in London, UK. In 2017, he was named the UK's School Librarian of the Year by the School Library Association.
