I think one of the most exciting things about Podcasting is how new it is. So many of these things have been in use for a long time, that I feel slow about catching up.
I listened to a few different podcasts. The first was Grammar Girl's tips at grammar.quickanddirtytips.com. She explained further vs. farther. I'm inspired to do my own Spanish grammar tips. Actually having the students do them would be even better. I had been thinking about videos like the ones that explain podcasts, google docs, etc. Their style is simple and it would be simple enough to be accomplished (although I know nothing is as simple as it looks after editing)!
The podcast I most enjoyed were the storynory.com stories. I love to read aloud to my students and since I've been teaching Spanish for the last few years I have very few classroom opportunities to read. I do get to do story time at the bookstore where I work on Saturdays and that definitely fills a hole for me! I know that copyright would be limiting, but perhaps my students and I could write some original stories to read and record.
I clicked on Dan's math for the masses, but from his list it looked like he was speaking to a more educated mass than that to which I belong :)!
I wanted to try a student podcast and ended up with digitalvoices.wikispaces.com, listening to Britnie's speech on being yourself. It was sweet, but the navigation was definitely not as polished. It was good to see a realistic representation of what students would do.
My husband reminds me that his radio station WSDP, which belongs to the Plymouth Canton School District has regular podcasts of their community focus segments. I plan to subscribe (I'm assuming that's Thing 20 :)). I've been sharing this journey with him, maybe he could get the podcasts on epnweb.org.
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