Podcasts

A Podcast is basically a recorded commentary that is available for downloading via the Internet. Today users can find podcasts from NPR, Apple iTunesU (which is a collection of university lectures by professors), your local church and much, much more! Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular in education. These Podcasts enable students and teachers to share information with anyone at any time. An absent student can download the podcast of the recorded lesson. It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to communicate curriculum, assignments and other information with parents and the community. Teachers can record book discussions, vocabulary or foreign language lessons, international pen pal letters, music performance, interviews, and debates. Podcasting can be a publishing tool for student oral presentations. Video Podcasts (also called Vodcasts) can be used in all these ways as well.

[|NPR Podcasts]