iTunes

iTunes is awesome for podcasts. I download 3 regularly. Adam Carolla for personal listening only and then CBC's Vinyl Cafe and Quirks & Quarks. I listen to each on my 45 minute drive to/from school and although I obviously only use Carolla for personal enjoyment, the others I have used in class. Students love the Vinyl Cafe stories. If I taught science, I'd use Quirks & Quarks all the time. As it is now, I use the later two mostly for writing prompts.

Last year I had a gifted student and I had her listen to a few school created podcasts. I can't remember the name of the school, but it was somewhere in Seattle I believe. Each podcast created was basically a lesson in a subject area, although one was a news report of the happenings around the school. Anyway, she created an amazing geography project with sound effects and narration.......all the other students were envious... unfortunately, we didn't have enough Mac's for all the students to try this, but this year may be different. We used GarageBand, but you could easily create something using iMovie as well....for an audio only podcast, just use the soundtracks and export ("share") that. Not sure what could be used on a PC.

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to this part of the course and awesome ideas for podcasts!!