Resources+for+This+Project

=AP World History Podcast Projects: A History Top 10=    With your group, create a 5-10 minute **enhanced podcast** which presents an original “Top 10” list featuring historical events, ideas, or figures you have studied this year.
 * Goal**

An **enhanced podcast** is a multimedia project, using both
 * **audio** (your voice speaking from an original outline and copyright-free music, if you choose)
 * **images** (i.e. slides, clipart, scanned illustrations, photos)

**Standards to Meet/Exceed in Your Project**


 * Content/Thinking Standards**
 * Analysis of history leads to judgements or claims of relative importance
 * Claims are supported by reasons (logical and factual)
 * Reasons include facts and/or details
 * Audience awareness: be entertaining and appropriate


 * Presentation Standards**
 * Meets length requirement
 * Images are clear and easy for viewer to perceive
 * Audio quality is high enough for listener to easily hear and understand
 * Speaking is natural and undistorted by disruptions (“uh,” “um,”)
 * Is successfully exported as an MP3 file
 * Sources identified for any images or specific facts you looked up
 * Mention at end of podcast and hand in annotated list with project


 * Process Standards**
 * All group members must play an active role and do a proportional share of the work.
 * Your topic and content must be shown for approval and feedback/recommendations/revisions before you start the production process.
 * Script must be outlined in some detail and aligned with chosen images before audio recording begins (storyboard)
 * Use class time wisely
 * Meet due dates along the way and at the end

**Resources**

[|Podcasting in Plain English] [|"What is Podcasting?" video]**
 * Background on Podcasting

[|LearnOutLoud.Com]
 * "Podcasts You Can Learn From"**

[|More detail on creating a podcast with Garageband]
 * How to Create a Podcast**
 * [|Creaing a podcast with Garageband].** From this link, choose bottom item from left-side menu, “Creating a Podcast.”
 * [|Creating a Simple Voice and Music Podcast with Audacity]**


 * How to Publish Your Podcast**
 * [|Exporting Your Audacity Project into iTunes]**


 * Recommended Software to Download:**

//For creating a podcast// //or//
 * Audacity (download free from **[|www.audacity.com]**)--Mac or PC
 * Garageband (Mac only)

//For downloading and listenign to podcasts (a.k.a. "podcatchers")//
 * [|iTunes] (in addition)--free, Mac or PC

**Equiptment**


 * Computer with speakers or headphone jack and headphones
 * Computer with internal microphone or external microphone or voice recorder

**Sample Podcasts**

