Going back way into the archives to help people find what they're searching for. Some pretty recent stuff too. Anyway, here are what people have been looking for in the past month:
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Today I was checking out the stats for this blog and people are finding their way here searching for the most interesting of things. In an effort to give the people what they want, I'll round up some of my posts into one super-post. Maybe you'll even find something you weren't searching for. Good luck! Serial Podcast Lesson Plan
My latest addiction is the Serial Podcast. If you haven't heard of it, you are perhaps not really living on planet Earth and you should definitely check it out, but be ready to binge listen because it's crazy addictive. I'm personally losing some sleep, waiting for episode 10 which was a week late due to American Thanksgiving and have had to start listening to podcasts about the podcast (Slate Serial Spoiler) in order to get my fix.
Anyway, when it came time to decide on something to study with my three, reasonably advanced and motivated students I decided to use this podcast. I wasn't sure if it would be too difficult for them or not, but with a combination of the transcript (Episode 1 Serial Transcript) and the Podcast itself, they seemed to understand most of it. They were pretty hooked on it right from the start, with all their papers filled with various colors of highlighter and notes and translations of words into Korean. I seriously think that they'd studied 10+ hours in only the few days since I'd seen them last. Our discussion was really interesting and filled with insights about human nature and other good stuff like that. It was work that didn't really seem like work and it made me feel happy to be a teacher.
If you have high-level students, definitely consider the Serial Podcast. I'd actually like to do an entire class using just this podcast and hope I have the opportunity in the future.
In case you're looking for more Serial transcripts:
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