Join the fun and start Podcasting

If a teacher comes to you and says, "I would like to make a podcast", then you should say, "Let's make one together". Podcast can be utilized to do many things. They are a great way for every subject area to display projects that students are creating. This technology allows students to show the things that they are learning and cover the Georgia Performance Standards in a fun way. Once teachers realize how easy it is to create a podcast they will encourage other teachers to create them as well. As a media specialist you could also do an in-service on the steps of creating a podcast and explain to the teachers the benefits of doing so.

Each grade level could create their own podcast and then they could link these to their web page and all stakeholders would have the opportunity to view them. What a terrific way for parents to see and hear what their students are creating.

On the media center website you could have a podcast in which you introduce yourself to students and parents and you could put some details on the podcast about the media center (Hours of operation, upcoming events, "Thank yous" to volunteers, introduce one section of the Dewey Decimal Classification System at a time). The possibilities are endless.

From the media center website you could have a page in which students can post podcast book reviews by grade level that other students could access and listen to. As a media specialist you could also post book reviews of books that are rarely or never checked out and this could encourage students to read them and increase their circulation.

There are many fun and exciting projects that you can create through doing a podcast. So go out there and create on today!

A resource:
digitalpodcast.com tells you 5 steps to create a free podcast
Http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2006/05/19/five-steps-to-free-podcasting/

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