Podcast #2

In my classroom I could use podcasts to describe (audio) how to get students to describe artwork without actually seeing what it looks like. Yes the visual is important but I think it is equally important in an art setting that students be able to talk about and explain their artwork without just saying “this is it.” Vocabulary is equally important and I would love to instill that idea to my students as early as possible.
I could give an example of what I would like them to create by just having them listen to me describe shape, size, textures, colors, elements, materials used, and the design of the actual product (our next project). I would not tell them specifically (the name) of what we are doing so they could go home and listen to the podcast and come in the next day with ideas on what the next lesson may be. I think if I give them this space to think creatively than maybe they will incorporate the same openmindedness in the art project we will be working on. I do not expect my students to just do the projects I give them. I want them to challenge me as well so in order to challenge me I think that giving them some idea about something, than they have to give a little bit of creativity in order to go above and beyond my requirements.
For my students to use podcasts, I would love for them to create podcasts reviewing their work. Considering I believe that the art vocabulary is just as important as the students finished project, I think that having them describe their final result verbally will be a great challenge. I think that having them describe the elements, time, research, an effort put into the project that they would be interested in listening to each other’s in order to understand why and how they all created what they did.
The 21st Century skills that are being addressed by myself would definitely be life and career skills due to the fact that I am using the podcast in order to influence my students which are my career. Also, I think that learning and innovation skills are definitely being challenged because I myself have to learn more than my students in order to teach them how to use these forms of technology. The media/information and technology skills will be challenged because I must reassure my students that I know what I am doing and show them that it is easy to create and fun to do even outside of school. I will show them examples.
The podcast itself is addressing innovation skills and information/media and technology skills because it is a form of technology. Not only is it a form of technology but it is a learning process. I cannot assume that my students have internet access so therefore they know exactly how to use or create a podcast. I need to make sure I at least give some sort of lesson on creating podcasts before I assign them a project to make their own. Learning how to create on is innovative in itself. Media and other podcast will be reviewed in order to give my students the ideas and creative drive they should have. Hopefully I inspire my students to want to make podcasts on their own not only to review their own work but others as well. I think for an early first assignment of a podcast it is a good tool to teach them how to talk about their own artwork because they created it. They know most about it and can talk about a guided criteria I assign them.