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Friday, June 26. 2009

NASA Do-It-Yourself Podcasts
Posted by Tony Vincent


NASANASA provides raw digital materials for students that they can combine to make videos, audio recordings, and slide shows about selected science topics. The materials are available from NASA's Do-It-Yourself Podcast page. Currently there are five topics: Fitness, Lab Safety, Newton's Laws, Spacesuits and Sports. For each topic, NASA provides video clips, audio clips, images, and information. Students can edit together what NASA provides with their own video, voice, and/or images. Software like iMovie, MovieMaker, GarageBand, Audacity, and PowerPoint could be used to mix together and explain the provided media.
Teachers often worry about copyright when students put together multimedia projects and post them to the web. NASA's materials are all copyright-friendly for teachers and students--no worries about gaining permission to use the materials.

I think it's exciting to see the final products with a project like this. Although students have access to the same digital materials, each and every project will turn out differently. NASA encourages teachers to share students' products online in the form of a podcast. The final project does not need to be a podcast, however. I think a great place to share these projects online is the Arizona K-12 Center's very own Media Showcase.

NASA has a blog dedicated to giving teachers guidance for Do-It-Yourself Podcasts. The blog will also let the world know when new topics are added.

NASA DIY Topics


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