Thing 19 - Podcasts

Can I first of all say that I just LOVE the CommonCraft videos- they are so perfect in every way! Absolutely anyone can understand the Plain English videos. They should have them for everything.....I could not get the Great Educational Podcast videos to work, so I just went on to explore podcasts. (It is, as we speak 90+ degrees outside, and it is 4pm- I am tired and hot. Why am I telling you this? You'll see...) What a pleasure to choose an NPR podcast, and stretch out on the couch in the AC with my eyes closed! I listened to NPR's Culturetopia, http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=89697153 and loved it. I plan on subscribing to a few, and figuring out how to download them onto my Ipod, which I have so far used only for music. I also checked out the vocab minute from the Princeton Review: http://feeds.feedburner.com/princetonreview -that is DEFINITELY going on my library homepage! I also listened to booktalks for students at http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/podcast_list.htm What a great way to have students recommend books to each other- I am going to start podcasting with English classes this year! I then listened to an Internet Safety podcast http://www.internetsafetypodcast.com/ with the author of a book called Ethics in the Information Age. It was 40 mins. long, though, and I can't imagine teachers sitting that long without something to look at. (Teachers are the worst audiences, in my opinion!) This is another great Thing as far as I am concerned!