Your Voice, Their Voice, Our Voice

Are you here to listen? Are you here to talk? Or are you ready to ask the questions? Explore the podcasts below with your students. Be sure to preview episodes for content warnings. Scroll down to find out how you and your students can preserve this history during this interesting time and our strange experiences of the now. Are podcasts too old-school? 

I wonder - how will their stories be preserved in the Library of Congress collection? When we permanently delete our InstaTokIgram lives, where will the record live? 

Listen and Watch

Hosting Podcasts

Once your class starts producing episodes, you may decide that you want to publish your students' work. Always take into consideration your students' media release permissions, their privacy rights, and their parents' wishes before publicly posting student work. To protect you and your students, you may want to begin by hosting your class podcast on a private site or section of your online classroom that only you and your students can access. If you want to kick around some ideas, talk to your ITRT!

If you decide that the time is right for your teacher podcast to go live, check out Podbean as a free podcast publishing and hosting platform. The free version (Podcast Starter) allows you to post three episodes per day with a total of five hours of storage space. Podbean will give you the tools to get your podcast listed on iTunes and other podcast aggregation services. 

Start Your Class Podcast

NPR's Starting Your Podcast: A Guide for Students
NPR's Teaching Podcasting: A Curriculum Guide to Podcasting
NY Times article on student podcasts


How To: StoryCorps DIY

Recording Tools: App & Web Tool

Recording Tool: Soundtrap