These are the classroom podcasts of Shelly Fryer’s 3rd through 5th grade students at Positive Tomorrows in Oklahoma City from the fall of 2015. Here are the first 22 episodes. * These were originally created using the Opinion app for iPhone. Press play to listen.
More photos of students creating the Room 108 podcast are available. You can also see student blogs and videos created by Shelly’s PT students.
Episode 1: Planning New Learning Spaces
August 3, 2015 · 8:07
First episode of our classroom podcast room 108 in Oklahoma City.
Episode 2: Our First Day
August 7, 2015 · 2:27
Our first class podcast about the favorite parts of our Day.
Episode 3: Our Classroom
August 10, 2015 · 1:34
What makes our class awesome?
Episode 4: When I Grow Up
August 13, 2015 · 2:04
Students share their ideas of what they want to be when they grow up.
Episode 5: What we like to do
August 14, 2015 · 1:29
What do you like to do when you’re not at school?
Episode 6: A Challenging Day
August 17, 2015 · 3:33
Students describe what was challenging about today.
Episode 7: The Important Thing About Our Class
August 21, 2015 · 3:40
Students share things that are important about our class.
Episode 8: Our Morning App Choices
August 24, 2015 · 3:12
Students describe their morning app choices and why they chose them.
Episode 9: Books We Are Reading
August 25, 2015 · 2:48
Students list the books they are currently reading.
Episode 10: Favorite Things At Recess
August 28, 2015 · 3:07
Students describe their favorite things to do at recess.
Episode 11: Our Responsibilities
September 2, 2015 · 4:23
Students describe their responsibilities at school. Also, Anastacia shares an article she read on News O Matic
Episode 12: Ms Bowler
September 2, 2015 · 3:01
Students describe what they love about our classroom assistant Ms. Bowler.
Episode 13: Lego Literature Challenge
September 8, 2015 · 4:03
Students use Legos to create a favorite character or scene from their favorite book.
Episode 14: How have you shown kindness
September 14, 2015 · 8:14
Interview with students about their meeting with Mrs. Agel on a playground idea, as well as different ways we are being kind.
Episode 15: New Books
September 23, 2015 · 2:23
The Thunder Bus visited our school today, and the students got to pick out new books.
Episode 16: How did you show honesty or integrity today
September 23, 2015 · 3:45
students describe how they showed honesty or integrity today.
Episode 17: What did you blog about today
September 28, 2015 · 1:58
Today we posted our first blog posts! We are excited to get your comments. Visit our webpage and read today’s posts.
Episode 18: Questions we have about ocean life
October 6, 2015 · 2:51
Our class is studying coral reefs and my students have some questions about ocean life and would like to reach out to experts for answers.
Episode 19: Skating with the Oklahoma City Blazers
October 9, 2015 · 3:37
PT Students celebrate the end of our first quarter skating with OKC Blazers at Arctic Edge in Edmond Ok
Episode 20: Were Studying Spiders
October 20, 2015 · 2:10
Today we started studying about spiders! Room 108 discovered some really fun facts about spiders today!
Episode 21: Things We Are Grateful For
November 21, 2015 · 2:58
Our character word for this week has been Gratitude. We have spent time being thankful for the good things in our lives.
Episode 22: Meet Our PT Staff
November 25, 2015 · 7:01
Students interview the Positive Tomorrows staff, and ask the question, “What are you grateful for?” Inspired by the Storycorps project.
Learn more about how Shelly created these podcasts in her October 2016 Classroom 2.0 Live “Featured Teacher” presentation. (63 min)
The original Opinion app website was taken offline, but Wes saved / backed up these 22 files before they were deleted. This Internet Archive Wayback Machine page helped us re-build this page with episode descriptions