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our students with autism and other dis- abilities did extremely well with the pod- casting,” Knopf said. “It’s funny because these aren’t kids who would get up in front of the class normally and talk, but they did these beautiful voiceovers on a history project they were working on.” Other podcasts are made that allow
military parents to see their kids at school, Cross said. “I met with a bunch of the parents at
Fort Benning, and I said, ‘Tell me what you miss the most,’” Cross said. “Tey said, ‘We don’t get to see our kids at school for a solid year. We don’t know who their teachers are, we don’t get to go to PTA,’ so that’s where the idea of the deployed podcasts came from.” Parents who are deployed also use the
podcasts available online to see what their kids are learning, Cross said. “We’ve actually had one parent that we
know about who’s in Afghanistan, and he’s been watching the podcasts from there and Skyping homework with his kids,” she said. Te podcasts have gained popularity
the world over since the project’s start, which Knopf attributes to the persever- ance of those involved. “Te teachers worked really hard on it
and they’re very good quality podcasts that address a lot of areas of need, so as people stumbled on it, it just grew,” Knopf said. Garner said he oſten carries a video
camera and collects footage for the videos, and other teachers do the same in an effort to make the videos more interesting. “Tere are some really good ones,” Gar-
ner said. “Most of them are not just some- one standing there talking. Tere are graphics and video. We’re not talking 10 or 20. We’re talking about hundreds and hundreds that cover all topics and grade levels.” Students go home and study the web-
site on their own because the material is in an appealing format, Knopf said. “Te
students we have now are
immersed in technology at birth,” Knopf said. “Tey’re used to having a more interactive format than just sitting down with a text. I think it’s just more dynamic. If you can watch a dynamic video that explores a concept and explains it, it’s a
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lot easier to do that than it is to sit and synthesize the information.” Te project also allows teachers to be
more creative than they would be in the classroom, Cross said. “We have a math ninja, who has a ninja
outfit on,” Cross said. “Tere’s one who did three or four called ‘I Want to be a Real Number,’ and she made puppets
out of paper bags. She had Mr. Square Root marry Miss Negative One and they became i.” Te last grant to fund the project ends
in a year, but Cross said she expects that the project will continue to thrive. “Did we expect the success we’ve had?”
she asked. “No. It’s just taken off, and sometimes you get lucky that way.”
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