Title: A box full of voices
Main Objective: During the trimester students will collect information about sculpture/statues in ancient Athens ( 500bC-323bC), and use podcasts to share the material they will produce and what they have learned by their web quest.
Class type: Primary school students, 10 years old
Aim= To learn how to search information through the web, practice dialogue and interview writing, also practice oral speech
Activity focus:writing and speaking
Time:10-15 minutes, depending of the text form
Material: Internet access, text suite as Open Office and microphone/headphones. Web tools that will be used : Podomatic, class wiki, Glogster, Audioboo, Wall-wisher, Capzles
Procedure: 1. Students search information for the classical era sculpture in ancient Athens through the internet.
2. Students write on wall-wisher the names of the teams they create and the names of the two sculptures each team will be studying.
3. Students write monologues and dialogues between the sculptures. They also prepare questions for interviewing the sculptors (role playing) and also a history of art professor.
4. Teacher signs up to Podomatic since the students are very young to be provided with mails and shows them how to record using the application.
5. Students create their team's page in their class wiki.
6. Teacher shows how to embed audio files in the wiki pages.
7.Teacher shows how to write a reply to a Podomatic audio.
8. Teacher shows how to embed text, pictures and audio files in Glogster.
9. Teacher shows how to record with Audioboo.
10. Students record their dialogues in Podomatic and Audioboo.
11.Students embed their podcasts in their wiki pages.
12. Students embed their glogs in their wiki pages.
13. Each team chooses another one and listens to their recording. They add comments/questions.
14. Teacher shows how to use Capzles and the teams upload their work .
At the end of the trimester the students present their work using their glogters and capsules to the rest students of the school and their parents organizing a presentation event.
15. Students and teacher evaluate the recordings and the project itself using a rubric.