Welcome to the Mystery Theater Podcast Project

We are teachers at Cape Cod Academy in Osterville, MA. We would like to share resources and links from our joint Literature/Technology project, for which students created mystery theater podcasts as they studied Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

Susannah Remillard is the 6th grade Language Arts & Literature instructor, and Mary Beth Bergh is the Upper & Middle School Technology Coordinator. The groundwork for this project was laid separately in students' Literature and Technology classes, then merged as groups of students recorded the mystery scripts they wrote together. Ultimately students created individualized mystery theater podcasts based upon the group script, but personalized with their own sounds and music.

We hope you use this site for resources and ideas to help your students create their own podcasts related to the grade level and subject area that you teach.

Use the other posts and links at right to access resources for this project.

Many thanks to Chris Shamburg, whose excellent book Student Powered Podcasting inspired us to undertake a podcasting project. His Podcourse, linked with permission, has an excellent tutorial to introduce Audacity and its multi-track recording capability.


The Sherlock Holmes Radio Mystery Theater Podcasting Project by Susannah Remillard and Mary Beth Bergh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.