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Ist jetzt nichts Ordinäres. Eine kurze Anleitung wie man die tolle Anwendung vokker.net mit dem moodle Glossar kombinieren kann. Ganz kurz auch zum Schluss der Hinweis auf meinen Speedpodcasting Auftritt in Salzburg bei der Interpädagogica. Auch das nichts Ordinäres.
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The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million people.
Their Special English series features boasts an enormous archive of easy English at a slower than usual speech rate. The archive has a search function and the topics are varied. Broadcasts come with transcripts and the audio files come in different formats. You can also have the stories sent to you by e-mail.
I use their stories frequently in my classrooms; sometimes I add listening comprehension questions; When the recordings are very long, I edit the podcasts with audacity.
Reel Reviews is hosted and produced by Michael W. Geoghegan. It’s a guy who selects films he personally recommends. Standard reviews run about 15 minutes in length. The longer “Cinephile” series takes a more in-depth look at classic and/or cult movies, with a run time of 30 minutes or more per episode.
Superfly e.g. is one of the first blaxploitation films; he starts out about characters, themes,….background information. Interesting film speak, definitely something for geeks! But can also be used in ESL classes.
Check out the excellent podcatsing solutions book M. Geoghegan wrote!
Breaking News in English has been around for a couple of years and features excellent podcasts from Sean Banville for learners of English as a second language; the news reports are free and there are several new lessons a week; each comes with a resource pack full of exercises and tasks. All lessons are based on stories currently in the news – as the world’s news breaks. The lessons can be downloaded in various formats are graded according to levels.
A few podcasts tell stories: one such site is Story Nory, a podcast that features stories from Bertie the frog; among the stories told you can find fairy tales, fables and many more. You can download the story via iTunes or listen to it online. The site features among my favorites “Alice in Wonderland” in installments with a wonderful voice to read it. Cinderella is the all time favorite according to their blog. There are quite a few other story podcasts available; Sometimes I read stories with my students and then have them listen to them or listen to parts of the stories with them.
Most emailed articles – this has become quite a popular feature on the Internet. When you read an interesting piece of news or see an interesting cartoon, you may want to share it with a friend. Providers of websites and magazines often include a feature which makes emailing this quite easy. This feature often has names like “Email this article to a friend” and makes it easy to send a news piece to another person, but also gives newspapers a chance to see, where the interests of their readers are.
Find out what NYTimes.com readers are most interested in today. James Barron, a reporter at The New York Times, summarizes the three most e-mailed articles every weekday.
This podcast could be used to have the students write out the article after listening to the podcast and then identify the articles from the online paper. I think it could also be great for summarizing skills.
- Other podcasts from the NYT can be found following this link
- For the most popular articles in writing
The Voice of America podcast about Sigmund Freud came out at the man's 150th birthday. It is about the father of psychoanaalysis and his work; I find it quite interesting and it could be used when speaking about well being or when teaching English across the curriculum; in a science class.