Week 9, Thing #21 - Podcasts

I used http://www.podcast.net/ to find a podcast on children;s books and subscribed to the "Children's Book Radio, a podcast and direcoty dedicated to sharing children's books." The RSS feed can be found at: childrensbookradio.com

I found some award winning educational podcasts in the categories of professional development, instructional podcast, documentary and sound seeing tour on the site KidCast Podcasting in the Classroom: http://www.intelligenic.com/blog/?page_id=82.
There was a documentary on the holocaust, a professional development activity on using Google Earth to have students evaluate the impact of historical photographs, an instructional podcast on how to calculate sales tax, and a podcast produced by elementary school students featuring their use of descriptive words in a tour of their school.

I am interested in further pursuing the use of podcasts. A good place to start seems to be the online "Beginner’s Guide to podcasts and podcasting (plus: how to create a basic podcast of your own)":
http://forevergeek.com/geek_resources/beginners_guide_to_podcasts_and_podcasting_plus_how_to_create_a_basic_podcast_of_your_own.php I might also see if I can track down the book KidCast: Podcasting in the Classroom by Dan Schmit.

I would like to use podcasts to feature students reading poems which they have chosen as meaningful to them and then have them explain the relevance of the poem.