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Podcasting with teens

Radiofaces groups reading through script in teen lounge Our teen podcasting group, the Radiofaces, has been re-constituted from a few years ago, and now meets weekly or bi-weekly, depending on the high school drama department schedule, all school year. Lately we have enjoyed reading short folk tales adapted by Aaron Shepard , in his excellent book, Folktales on Stage: Scripts for Reader's Theater . Set-up for podcasting The teens are making these their own by adopting kind of crazy accents and affectations that they find goofy. The only reservation I have for this is that the result has to be intelligible! What do we use for recording? Why, the Blue Yeti multi-directional mic, of course! This powerhouse of a mic can be adjusted to mono-directional, bi-directional, and omnidirectional. We use it plugged into one of our Mac laptops running Garageband . This makes it super easy to edit, add opening and closing music, save to iTunes and send it off to our podcasting...