Podcasting

The names of the podcast shows for which I subscribed are:
1 ITunes presents Meet the Author -
2 Cook’s Illustrated Video Podcast –
3 Grey’s Anatomy Official Podcast –
The topics of the shows were: 1 Miranda July – writer of short fiction; 2 Purchasing and Searing Steaks; 3 Betsy & Shawnda talk about Grey’s show. The format of the first podcast was an Audio interview of the author; the second had video that showed you how to sear the steak as well as how to purchase and cut a rib eye. The Grey’s Anatomy podcast was an audio discussion between two people. The quality of the content was very good in all three podcasts. I enjoyed the dialogue between the author and interviewer especially well! I would definitely listen to them all again and have them downloading to my IPod now.

I think this would be a GREAT tool for students that are sick or missing school due to activities, etc. They would be able to hear what they missed during the class period. I definitely think I would use Podcasting in the classroom. I really like the idea of communicating with parents through Podcasting rather than boring newsletters or a million and one emails!