Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Teaching With Podcasts

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

Students will listen to school-appropriate podcasts.  They will choose a theme and brainstorm several ideas for episodes for an original podcast.  They will write a script, record, and edit the podcast.  They will add music and sound effects using music designed to be distributed freely online.  

    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Media Arts

    AE17.MED.PRO.2

    Collaboratively apply aesthetic criteria in developing, proposing, and refining artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering original inspirations, goals, and presentation context.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.MED.PRO.2

    Vocabulary

    Creativity
    • Productive thinking
    • Divergent thinking
    • Improvisation
    Collaborate
    • Active listening
    • Combining ideas
    Aesthetics
    • Appealing
    • Artistic taste
    Design process
    • Prototype
    Stylistic conventions
    • Techniques
    • Devices
    • Effects
    Associated Principals
    • Elements of Design
    • Elements of Dance
    • Elements of Music

    Essential Questions

    EU: Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas, plans, and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
    EQ: How do media artists organize and develop ideas and models into process structures to achieve the desired end product?

    Skills Examples

    • Use productive thinking and divergent thinking to list many, varied, and unusual ideas for a media arts product. Choose one idea to develop based on identified artistic goals and justify the choice. Use improvisation to develop a script/ storyboard for production.
    • In a group, provide constructive criticism for individual media arts products.
    • Collaboratively, apply agreed upon aesthetic criteria to suggest refinements for each product after active listening to each team member's inspiration, goals, and presentation context.
    • Using at least two art forms, outline a plan for a media arts product that serves as a PSA for a school service club, choosing stylistic conventions that support the two art forms and the product's purpose.
    • Exchange copies of media arts products with a classmate. In the spirit of exploration and experimentation, modify and refine a product to reflect personal goals and preferences. Meet and explain choices in modifications.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Media Arts

    AE17.MED.PRO.12

    Analyze how a variety of media arts productions manage audience experience and create intention through multimodal perception.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.MED.PRO.12

    Vocabulary

    Intention
    Multimodal

    Essential Questions

    EU: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
    EQ: How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experiences?

    Skills Examples

    • Review a series of media arts products used to teach history and write a critique of the qualities and relationships between the components and style in accordance to one's preferences.
    • Review a series of media arts products and write a critique of how the productions manage audience experience and create intention through multimodal perception.
    • Review a series of media arts products and write a critique of how the productions communicate intent and meaning for both personal context and cultural context.
    • Interview a community media artist and evaluate his/her production processes using teacher-provided criteria and considering artistic goals.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Media Arts

    AE17.MED.PRO.18

    Critically evaluate and effectively interact with legal, technological, systemic and vocational contexts of media arts, considering ethics, media literacy, social media, virtual worlds and digital identity.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.MED.PRO.18

    Vocabulary

    Resources
    • Internal
    • External
    Communication
    • Inform
    Creativity
    • Synthesize
    • Integrate
    Contexts
    • Legal
    • Technological
    • Systemic
    • Vocational
    Message
    • Purpose
    • Meaning
    • Values
    Culture
    • Trends
    • Power
    • Equality
    • Identity
    Identity
    • Personal
    • Social
    • Cultural
    Evaluate
    • Critical eye
      • Vet

    Essential Questions

    EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
    EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?

    Skills Examples

    • Research for a media arts project by reflecting, interviewing family and friends, and reading scholarly sources and create an annotated bibliography that includes an evaluation of the sources.
    • Create an annotated bibliography of media arts products that inform an audience about various cultural values and perspectives. Choose one and share with the class, demonstrating the effective presentation of a single point of view.
    • Create an annotated bibliography of media arts products that inform an audience about the cause and effect of a current social trend. Choose one product and share with the class, demonstrating the trend's effect on cultural identity.
    • Research the legal, technological, systemic, and vocational implication of music sampling in the music industry and create a media arts project that evaluates the court decisions regarding sampling and the effects on media artworks and artists.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
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