An excellent starter guide to podcasting is: http://www.k12handhelds.com/podcasting.php
Good "How to" Guide- http://www.learninginhand.com/podcasting/create.html
Samples of Podcasts
You can find already developed podcasts in a variety of ways. You can visit the i-Tunes Library or just surf the web! Check out the podacasts listed below!
Podcasts about Educational Technology
Techintegration.net
http://teachers.ocps.net/lienj/podcasting/podcasting.htm
Soft Reset
www.learninginhand.com/softreset
Podcasts for Math
Math Tutor
www.mathtutor.ac.uk/ipod.shtml
The Math Factor
Podcasts for Science
Astronomy a Go-Go
The Wild Classroom
www.thewildclassroom.com/home/nav/podcastingscience.html
Scientific American-60 second Science
Podcasts for English/Language Arts
Children’s Book Radio
Poetry Foundation
http://poetryfoundation.org/features/audiohtml
Shakespeare-upon-ipod
www.shakespearebyanothername.com/audio.html
Storynory-iPod Ready Stories for Kids
Podcasts for Social Sciences
Discovery Atlas
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/atlas/podcast/podcast.html
National Geographic
www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/
White House RSS feeds and podcasts
Podcasts for Fine Arts
The Composer’s Notebook
http://nolanschmit.com/site/the_composers_notebook/the_composers_notebook.html
smARThistory
Other Podcasts
Exertrack
www.exertrack.com/exertrackmp3/exertrak_podcasts_defualt.htm
Trying to Learn Spanish
www.trayingtolearnspanish.blogspot.com
French Pod Class
National Public Radio
www.npe.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php
The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcats.html
Podcasts for Students by Students
Hanes Middle School-Sounds Bytes
Radio WIllowWeb
www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/
The Coulee Kids’ Podcats
www.sdlax.net/longfellow/sc/ck
Broward County Public Schools
feed://www.browardschools.com/feed/podcats.xml
Our City Podcast
http://learninginhand.com/OurCity/
Other Podcasts
A great example of how of podcasting is being used at an elementary school.
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/index.htm
Podcasts for Kids, By Kids
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/podcasts.html
High School Podcast- on school home page
http://lsw.lps.org/dhersh/podcast.html
Williamsburg Podcasts
http://www.history.org/media/podcasts.cfm
PBS Podcats
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/podcasts.html
National Geographic Podcasts
http://nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/
EdVenture Group Links for Podcasting
http://www.theedventuregroup.org/wcd/podcasting.htm
Another way to share audio files is "audioblogging". You do not have as much flexibility but it is super easy. You can record an audio file using your phone and you can set it to automatically post to your blog. Gabcast is a free service that helps you do that!
There was an article in the most current issue of Leading and Learning Magazine