Podcasts

I listened to a portion of each of these podcasts:
Mr. Longhorst's Web Classroom
Grammar Girls
The Midas Touch
Internet Safety
The Tech Pod Zone 64 Christmas List
Each podcast was unique. The classroom podcast was specific to the teacher and would be a great way for students to review for a test. Depending on the content, it might be more difficult to make a video but it could be more engaging for the students. It would depend on the quality of speech of the teacher. Mr Longhorst seemed to be a good speaker on the audio.
Grammar Girls was very good to help reinforce the rules of grammar and could be used as a lesson in itself.
The Midas Touch was a story for elementary age students and the speaker had an accent which would probably engage young listeners. This would be an excellent tool for dyslexic students who had trouble decoding more difficult books. They could interact with the content and vocabulary and possibly make their own podcast report on the story.
Internet Safety was ok but some of the comments by the speakers were inappropriate for students.
The Tech Pod Zone was ok also but a little too much fooling around for me, the students would probably love it. The nice thing about this one was they listed all of the webpages they spoke about on the podcast.
It would be easy for me to make podcasts part of my teaching since I'm in a computer lab. I would give the specific podcast in the lesson since some of the lists contained inappropriate content for the classroom. It might not be as convenient for other teachers unless they had a LCD projector in their classroom and could view the vodcasts on the screen. They could always play the podcasts on their computer for students to hear. Sometimes it is difficult to hear the audio on the teachers computer throughout the classroom.