Engage Learners Through Livestreaming and Podcasting

Purpose & objective

Live-streaming or broadcasting is not expensive and does not require fancy equipment. Participants will learn the ins and outs, which technology to use (Streamyard, Canva, and Anchor) to create a live-stream and/or podcast for professional use and to incorporate into their teaching practices.
Students are more engaged when what they are learning is connected to their daily lives. Teaching students broadcasting skills (or even allowing them to teach us as educators and acknowledging that our students already come to use with many technological skills) will allow them to bring learning outcomes to life. Students can use their voices as advocates and demonstrate knowledge through live-streaming and/or podcasting through story-telling. This honors student voice and helps educators to truly facilitate learning as opposed to only using lectures as a way to teach (which encourages knowledge-dumping).

Outline

Rachelle and I will introduce ourselves (5 min).
We'll share our Thrive O'Clock Live-Stream and podcast. (15 min).
We'll share all the resources we use as in social media platforms, Streamyard, Canva, Anchor. (5-10 min)
We'll assign roles to our "students" like host, co-host, script writers, graphic artists, banner maker, and producers. As a group we will create a brodcast, Go LIVE (45 min).
After LIVE experience, we will reflect as a class: what went wrong, how did we go with flow, what would we change next time? (5-10 min)

Supporting research

https://nationalblueribbonschools.ed.gov/preparing-students-for-tv-and-radio-broadcasting-careers/

https://www.studenttelevision.com/