Ideas on using Digital Audio in the Classroom
See the Audio page for the "nuts and bolts" of recording audio on computers and on using software to create podcasts.
This blogger concisely explains his equipment set-up for high level podcasting.
ITunes and Managing How You Find and Listen to Podcasts:
There is good information about your options for finding and listening to podcasts here:
"How To" Podcasting
This wiki provides and excellent over view of podcasting technology as well as examples of educational uses.
Classroom Examples of Using Audio in Teaching
This teacher uses audio recordings and ipods to provide differentiated, individualized support in literacy.
The Tempered Radical describes multiple ways that he uses podcasts (creating and listening) in his teaching at this wiki site.
Mr. Mayo's 7th grade students create podcasts on the books that they're reading. *
Room 613 Podcasts the news.*
Students create regular radio shows a this school in England.
Here's the blog of a kindergarten teacher who uses regular podcasts to build literacy skills in her kindergarten classroom.*
Kids in Australia produced a series of very carefully planned podcasts and share them here with you.
Some great audio plays were produced by students in a remote rural school in Canada and shared with the world here.
Great reviews of children's literature can be found on this podcast blog.
This website has very good information about different ways to use Ipods in the classroom.
Good examples from England can be found here, with supporting materials and discussion of how the school found podcasting to be part of the school's boosts in achievement.
Professional Development: Podcasts for Teachers
The New Teacher Hotline produces podcasts for new teachers twice a month. You can find them here or subscribe to them through ITUnes.
And these two eight minute videos will teach you about using IPods with audio books, mini-quizes and/or flash card exercises for the IPod, and finding podcasts.
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