[Sig-bwp] NYTimes: Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts

[Gerry Mckiernan]

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Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts 
By JEFFREY SELINGO
Published: January 25, 2006

[ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/25podcast.html ]

THE subjects were typical for a seventh-grade classroom: a summary of a mealworm's metamorphosis, strategies on improving memory and making studying easier and a story about a classroom candy thief.

But the discussions last fall at Longfellow Middle School in La Crosse, Wis., were not taking place only for their classroom to hear. They were recorded as part of a series of podcasts the students produced and syndicated over Apple's iTunes music store.

Podcasting - posting an audio recording online that can be heard through a computer or downloaded to a mobile device like an iPod - is following blogs and online classes as yet another interactive technology catching on as a teaching tool. Currently, iTunes lists more than 400 podcasts from kindergarten through 12th-grade classes, while Yahoo has nearly 900 education-related podcasts. 

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This is just the beginning ... ; Stay Tuned ...

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian 
Iowa State University Library 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu