Teacher Generated Podcasts:
1. Vocabulary Lists: The teacher could create a podcast with the correct pronunciation of each weeks vocab terms.
2. Read-Alongs: The teacher could create an audio version of reading selections in the textbook for students to listen to while they follow along in the book, to help with the pronunciation of unfamiliar words. Depending on the level of Spanish, they could also include commentary in English for unfamiliar phrases or idioms that maybe students wouldn't easily find in the dictionary.
3. Dialogue practice: This one has both a student and teacher generated part. The teacher would record a dialogue or text selection that she wants the students to practice as a part of their oral participation, and then the students would record themselves reading it for the teacher to evaluate and comment on.
Student-Generated:
4. Cultural Projects: As a group projects students would be a Spanish speaking country to do sort of a report on. Instead of a written report they would create a podcast, including music clips from that culture,etc.
5. I think it would be neat to do sort of a "podcast pen pal" thing if it would be possible to work with a school from a spanish speaking country and they could send recorded letters to those students and vice/versa.
6. For maybe a Spanish 5 or AP spanish class, an ongoing project could be to make a radio program(all in spanish) about news/events/entertainment/music, etc relevant to a spanish speaking country or the hispanic population here in the US. The finished project could then be used in the lower level classes.
