Thing 15 - Cast your pod out there

There are some podcasts of value to middle and high school, but for teaching in the elementary, not many. The only thing I found for younger kids were storybooks. They are great, but I would want them to follow along in a book so they make the correlation of words on paper to spoken words. I was not sure where to find them, never really looked because I didn't think there would be anything of use to me. I'm glad to know that there is a wide variety of podcasts out there. As far as using them myself, as a computer lab teacher in an elementary school, it probably won't happen very often. I have thought about making my own podcasts though, to go with lessons I teach, or just to spark interest in technology with my students. Our principal is very tech minded and I think she would like the kids to have the exposure to podcasting. We wouldn't download them to ipods or anything at the school level however.