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=**Group 2: Podcasting Lesson Plan**= by Amy, Larry, and Lorie

Lesson Plan Overview:
Students will research a prominent leader of the 20th century. Students will work in small groups to create a biographical podcast of the life and legacy of their leader. Students will publish their podcast to the web for all others in the class to listen to. Throughout the lesson students will not only be researching and learning about their assigned leader, but they will learn the skills necessary to create and publish a podcasts for learning purposes. = = Lesson Prerequisites: This lesson assumes that students have received instruction and demonstration in recording, editing, and saving a podcast. Additionally, they should have had an opportunity to practice each of these skills and can perform them with little guidance. In order to complete this lesson, the students must have certain skills and knowledge of creating a podcast. Prior to teaching this lesson, be sure students:
 * 1) Can choose and use the appropriate software they need to record their podcast. They should know that they should use Garageband if they are using a Mac or Audacity if they are using a Windows operating system.
 * 2) Have received instruction on using the appropriate software to create their recordings. They should be able to use the software to not only record their podcast, but also edit and loop their recording.
 * 3) Have access to the iTunes program to upload their podcast. They should have received instruction on importing their podcast into iTunes.
 * 4) Have received instruction and a demonstration on recording, editing, and publishing a podcast. If they will not be publicly publishing their podcast, they should at least be familiar with how to isolate the MP3 of their podcast and pull it from iTunes to save it to the desktop, a disk, or some other type of disk.

= = Cited Sources: [|The Education Podcast Network] [|Tech for Teachers]