Thing 19

I really like the idea of podcasts and being able to find them, subscribe to them, and listen whenever you want.

I liked the links to the special interest podcasts. I discovered how to use podcasts with my classes last spring. During our unit on viruses & bacteria, I had an assignment where students needed to listen to a podcast from NPR's Science Friday about bacteria that live in your gut: http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200811214 As a part of this assignment, students also had to visit several websites that talked about bacteria, watch a short video clip that I had saved for them on the school server (which I now know I could figure out how to post on a blog so they could complete the assignment away from school), and listen to some public service announcements about the E. coli and peanut butter issue. I really liked the assignment, and I'm excited to be able to create more of them. I think that it will be very helpful now that I know a little more about podcasts and putting other multimedia and technology resources on a blog or other digital platform. I think that I would like to subscribe to the Science Friday podcast since I often am not able to listen when it is broadcast, but I love listening. If I had them on my computer or iPod, I could listen whenever.

Another interesting podcast that I found was the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day. Here is the link to today's word, dernier cri: dernier cri. Although I don't teach English, I think this might be an interesting podcast to subscribe to on a personal level. I like learning new vocabulary. Maybe I could figure out how to subscribe to the podcast, put them on my iPod, and play them in the car on the way to work. Humm...