How-To Guides
10 Steps to Successful Student News Podcasting $35
In this Video How-To guide I give you all the secrets that I use to get my elementary students to do the best student-news podcast on the web, and how our news podcast makes our school over $1000 a year.
Step 1: Developing a Show Format, Step 2: How to Set-Up your Studio, Step 3: Writing your Script, Step 4: Setting Up your Show in iTunes, Step 5: Putting Together a Great News Team, Step 6: How to Train your Team, Step 7: What to do Before the Show, Step 8: Doing the show, Step 9: What do do After the Show, Step 10: Extras.
Link to Intro Video on YouTube
Screenplays (scripts)
Screenplay – “Confidence” $10
A student learns how to get confidence to overcome her shyness and compete in a school talent show. This script is for elementary students but can be adapted to older students. Written by Brad Flickinger and emailed to you as a PDF.
Screenplay – “Don’t Eat the Cookies” $10
Student must take on evil teacher who is trying to use mind-control cookies to make her students into zombies. This script is for elementary students but can be adapted to older students. Written by Brad Flickinger and emailed to you as a PDF.
Screenplay – “Keeping Your Cool” $10
Two students learn how to keep their cool when things don’t go as planned. This script is for elementary students but can be adapted to older students. Written by Brad Flickinger and emailed to you as a PDF.
Screenplay – “Dude! Where’s My Pencil?” $10
A student learns that her teacher has been trying to get her into trouble. This script is for elementary students but can be adapted to older students. Written by Brad Flickinger and emailed to you as a PDF.
Screenplay – “Resilience” $10
A student tries to use a gnome that grants wishes as a shortcut to getting the lead role in a school play. This script is for elementary students but can be adapted to older students. Written by Brad Flickinger and emailed to you as a PDF.
Books
Teaching with Netbooks (PDF) $10
When a teacher receives a complete set of netbooks for his or her classroom, their teaching methods are going to dramatically change. I don’t say this to be an alarmist or to be sensational, but I simply state it as a matter of fact from what I’ve witnessed in my trials of netbooks in classrooms. Imagine for a moment being a teacher in a one-to-one classroom where you stand at the front of the room looking over your students at their desks with their netbooks open ready to be instructed. What do you do?