Why every school should be podcasting
DJ Bun has interviewed lots of people, including parents, schoolchildren and special guests such as Ayesha Assantewaa, former presenter of the BBC radio show Big Toe Radio. Her interviews can be heard by a worldwide audience thanks to the internet.
And who is she exactly? Well, until recently, she was simply an 11-year-old pupil at Oakington Manor foundation school in the London borough of Brent, answering to the name of Chelsea Parkinson.
At Oakington, Chelsea and many other pupils have created podcasts – audio content that is published online to be downloaded from the internet. For her, podcasting has been “a fun thing to do”. She says she has learnt new skills and gained a lot of confidence.
“Podcasting has transformed our school,” says Oakington’s head of ICT, Ophelia Vanderpuye. “Kids are excited by it and it’s opened new ways of communicating with others. Every school should be podcasting.”
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