A guide to podcasting in education

1. Podcasting – A guide www.think-bank.com

3. Download and play on your PC, or mobile devices such as mobile phones, iPods and other MP3 players

4. Can access podcasts via iTunes

5. Can listen through websites http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

6. Or subscribe to RSS feeds http://www.downs.kent.sch.uk/downsfm

7. What to podcast?

9. School news Local, National, International news Discuss topics that are taking place and how it relates to them or their studies

10. Audio books – record for themselves or for younger readers

11. Instructional guides – students create for each other. Or teacher produces to guide them.

12. Interviews Interview members of staff, students, members of the community, and visitors to school.

13. Pupil Voices Talk about themselves and topics that interest them; for an example, the Youth Voices Project: http://yv.wamu.org/index.php

14. Revision Audio versions of lesson notes – important points and information. Student or teacher-created.