Geoff’s EFL Blog

(1) Student activity: transcribing and analysing a podcast
On Thursday, 9 – 10 am, my main class, GO5 pre-intermediate general English course, had their one hour of the week in the computer lab. with me. I got them to listen to themselves on a previous podcast, transcribe what they heard in Word, and correct their mistakes. [...]

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Wow!
Got a message from Richard Green (JRGreen, Int’l Speech Communication http://nitantiao.podomatic.com/), that his class had posted a Valentine’s Day message at his podomatic site, for us podcasters at the Bardwell Road Centre. There is an audio podcast, and also a video version, in RealPlayer format, which I watched. Here’s the link:
Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone from [...]

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Posted the Valentine’s Day episode earlier tonight.
http://bardwellroad.podOmatic.com/entry/2006-02-10T11_49_07-08_00
1. Language mistakes
The issue of linguistic mistakes in unscripted student-produced podcasts nags at me. I’ve never been much of a believer in the effectiveness of correction of oral mistakes. But in a podcast, there they are, and as I work on the audio content, I start to notice them [...]

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Angela Vilarino will be the host for the next podcast.
Valentine’s Day is coming up next Tuesday, and the plan we’ve concocted is for her to get people talking about Valentine’s Day, or the equivalent, in their country, and also about related topics of relations between (young) men and women.
She showed me a scripted introduction she’d [...]

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So, Melanie’s podcast TBRCP0004 – GO5 class talk about Oxford nightlife is out. It was recorded and uploaded on Friday.
http://bardwellroad.podomatic.com/entry/2006-01-27T13_46_13-08_00
She chose to ask her classmates about their experience / opinion of Oxford nightlife. [A little background: It was Melanie's birthday on Thursday, and she went to the Bridge nightclub in Oxford city centre the [...]

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Anne Fox (fellow EVO 2006 ELT podcasting participant) sent a voicemail message to the students at bardwellroad.podomatic.com. It was a response to their choice of cuisine (McDonalds and Chinese, not British) in a previous podcast. She posed it in the form of a puzzle, to try to guess what kind of food she, a Brit [...]

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Following on from discussions in the EVO2006 ELT podcasting course, and from the example and guidance of postings by Graham, Ann, and Ruth, amongst others, I have realised that I have been a bit hasty in pushing my students into producing a series of podcasts, without first getting them up to speed as consumers of [...]

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Just posted the latest espisode of the Bardwell Road Centre Podcast, episode 3.
TBRCP0003 – GO5 class tell how they spent the weekend
http://bardwellroad.podOmatic.com/entry/2006-01-20T06_19_46-08_00
This time, with a guest producer, José, one of the students in my pre-intermediate GO5 class. José is an adult, Spanish, works as a crewman on an oil tanker.
RECORDING
José had planned an episode where [...]

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In case it could help others, below is my podcasting setup. [I should emphasise that I've only done a couple of podcasts so far, so I'm far from an expert!!!]
FOR RECORDING
My laptop has a built-in microphone, but there’s a lot of noise so I really needed an external microphone.

I’m using a Labtec Desktop Mic 534, [...]

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I have submitted a few files to the File upload areas of Yahoo discussion group Podcasting ELT.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/podcasting_elt/
[I hope it's OK for participants to do that, I couldn't see where else to put them.]
1. In the Files area, Week 2, I put a copy of the document I gave to my class, when I introduced the [...]

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