This thing took a very long time! First of all, I had to download iTunes. I like the language programs I found on epnweb.org. I found ReVerb Spanish to be quite helpful and I would recommend it to students. I think I would use this resource in a lab setting where I could keep an eye on the students. I think once they found out how helpful the language pocasts were, I would trust them to use them on their own.
Personally, I subscribed to This American Life on iTunes. This is a program I have missed since WDET keeps changing its programming. I used to listen to it on Sunday mornings, before church. Now I don't know when they air it. I don't need to find out, though! I will now get each episode automatically.
I can see a staff development use for this tool. I think to hold the teachers' attention, a video or vodcast would be better, but recording and saving sessions for teachers who have to miss a session would be valuable. The other value to that would be relistening to a podcast of a session as a way of following up, checking my progress in implementing a new teaching technique. Further, teachers could share podcasts as part of material for a professional learning community.
I'm looking forward to continuing to enjoy podcasts, myself and sharing them with others, both in teaching and out.
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