Thing 20

Okay, I must admit, I am not much of a fan of podcasting. Yes, I think it is a good idea to use if students are creating their own podcasts, but I am really not wow-ed by the search engines out there to find the exact podcast that I am looking for. I thought that the Education Podcast Network would be filled with appropriate podcasts for middle school kids, but there were only a few dozen podcasts. I found that Podcast Alley was just overwhelming. I don't know, I guess I just don't want my students to listen to a podcast just for the sake of listening to one. If one day, I had a brillant idea and searched and found an appropriate podcast, then I guess I would have them listen to one, but I think may stick to having them create a podcast- with monitoring of course. I listened to a podcast from Cranbrook middle school composers and noticed that one of the student's song was titled "Bubbles, Sparkles and Champagne"- plus she described her song as "Sexy". Yeah, I would have to do some teacher editing to her podcast if she were my student... Anyway, I did subscribe to an NPR Health podcast- just to see if I could do it (and I could). Honestly, I don't check my bloglines account, so I probably won't check my NPR podcast subscription, but if I ever have an urge to subscribe to podcasts, I now know how.