Middle School Podcasts, outline and script examples

Making a podcast can be a fun and educational experience for middle school students and teachers.  They can learn about audio production, public speaking, technology, and more.  Although podcasting can be a difficult project when you are first trying it, eventually you get some pretty phenomenal results.

This is a sample podcast outline that I used with my students last year, you can see the original post on my other blog lnmedialab.blogspot.ca.  I found that is was a useful model that they could follow to make an outline, which they could then turn into a script.  There is more to making a middle school podcast than this,  but feel free to use it if you would like.

I hope to post some more thoughts on middle school podcasting later.

A Sample Podcast Outline and Script Example 

Outline Example

1. Opening-A quick musical jingle 
2. Introduction-A monologue style introduction introducing your hosts and what you will talk about on your show
3. Segway-Could be musical or a sound effect
4. Topic 1:Talk for about 3 minutes
5. Vocal Segway--"We are going to move on and talk about..."
6. Topic 2:  Talk for about 3 minutes
7. Musical segway
8. Topic 3:  Talk for about 3 minutes
9. Closing remarks, thank the audience, guests, what will be on the next show
10. Closing musical Jingle

Rough Script Example

Opening musical jingle:  First 30 seconds of Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne

Jim:   Hi welcome to the great Sports Guru Podcast.  I am Joe Smith, and with me today is Timothy Carter.  We have a great show for you today.  Today we are going to talk about our super bowl predictions, bring in our guest speaker Alexander Ovechkin to talk about the recent success of the Washington Capitals, and finish with our thoughts on the first few games of the NBA season.

Sound Effect 1-Whistle

Topic 1.

Jim:  So Tim, who do you think is going to be in the Super Bowl this year.

Tim:  Its got to be the Ravens, there is no way that they are losing to the Patriots.  Their defence is too solid.  

Jim:  I just don't see them being able to shut down the Patriots.  There is no way Joe Flacco will outscore Tom Brady.

Tim:  You can't even compare the Ravens defence to the Patriots.

Jim:  Well I think the Patriots will be in the game.  Who is going to win between the Giants and the 49ers.

Tim:  Giants, they can put up the points.  San Francisco can't

Jim:  I agree with you there.  But it could be close.  I think that the game will be decided by a field goal.

Tim:  Anyways time to move on, please welcome our guest Alex Ovechkin

Applause Sound Effect