Thing #19 Podcasts

I am a big fan of podcasts and have been  downloading programs from NPR like This American Life to listen to weekly on my iphone. I played around with a few podcasts for my students this year mostly in the lab, downloading news stories for them to listen to as they read them online but haven't gone much further with it yet. I am thinking about letting my students create some podcasts around their books and history units and after perusing the sites especially Libivox, have downloaded a bunch of short stories! It might be fun for students to make podcasts of the short stories they have written and to start a library which we could post on our class webpage (which I have to develop!) or on our blog (which I also have to develop!).  We might also partner up with our feeder schools and maybe read picture books or chapter books to younger students. Or poetry! It promises to be a busy year.