Poetic License

When asked to do the initial RSS Feed task where I added subscriptions, podcasts were included in my subscriptions.  I LOVE NPR and enjoy listening to it in the car, but now that I have teens, I’m often overruled when it comes to listening.  In the morning, I don’t compromise however and get to find out what’s going on the world.  Podcasts are a way to catch up. For instance, the new David Sedaris book just came out, and I’d like to listen to him read an essay to decide whether or not I should buy it. I found an NPR podcast with that exact thing while exploring the various options tonight.  I visited Podcast Alley and NPR and PBS sites which all had things I wanted to listen to…the downside is finding the time to do it.  I do own an IPod as do virtually all of my students, and IPods are great for listening to podcasts. Kids are attached to their IPods like we are attached to our cell phones, and they are a wonderful vehicle for imparting information.  

For my particular students, creating podcasts will have more allure than actually listening to the ones others created, unless those others are their friends’.   There are many applications for classroom usage. I’m thinking that podcasts would be great for recording memorized poems (videocasts would be better), creating radio shows in writing workshop, presenting research material, or other things.

We’ll see how easy it is to actually create this podcast in the next thingy…. If kids can do it, I can too!!!!