podcast

In this task, students assume the role of a Political Party Research Officer. Their boss (a state Congresswoman) is on her way to a conference on a controversial current issue and the student is tasked with creating a playlist of relevant resources that she can listen to/watch on her ipod while...

For this task, each student plays the role of an intern at a public radio station who has been asked to write a story for one of their podcast shows. This could be someone else’s story (students would interview them and then write the story) or a personal story. The story could be humorous or...

In this computer-based task, students take on the role of an investigative reporter for a watchdog group. Students choose a topic, conduct research, and report on the topic and the information found. This can be in the form of a podcast, article, blog post, videocast or another presentation...