"Podcasting in Education" video series

Free video series: "Podcasting in Education."
View our three-part series and learn the basics of podcasting, how to use podcasting to help meet national standards, and how real administrators are using podcasting.

Start Your Own Podcast

A how-to from Macworld. Focuses on Mac products, but the basics are universal.

How to Podcast

A step-by-step guide to creating a podcast. A bit commercial in nature, but some good info here.

Podcasting 101

Another nice overview of what podcasting is and how to get started.

Yahoo!Podcasts

A nice simple overview starting with What a podcast is and continuing on to listening, subscribing and creating your own.

Podcasting in Education

What Is Podcasting? In its most popular form, podcasting is a way for people to selectively subscribe to audio content over the Internet. This audio content can then be automatically downloaded to a computer or mobile device, like iPod. Think of it as a radio show that you can listen to whenever and wherever you want — only it’s much more than that.

Creating and Publishing Podcasts

This is a step-by-step tutorial by Apple as part of the iLife software.

Podcasting in Education Solutions

Educational podcasting. Content to go. Solutions from Apple Education.

Learning in Hand: Creating Podcasts

A great site created by Tony VIncent, an educator, on how to create podcasts with students. VERY simple to follow directions with lots of resource links.

iPod in the Classroom

Lesson Plans
Apple has provided a collection of educator-created lesson plans for you to use as idea starters for using iPod in your classroom. These wonderful examples come from educators like you, who are using iPod to enhance their curricula and student performance.

iPods and ELL Students (article)

If reincarnation exists, Janet Schutz knows exactly how she’d like to come back in her next life: as an Apple iPod evangelist. “I would love to go from school to school, showing educators and administrators the wonders of the iPod!” exclaims Schutz, integration specialist and teacher at Grand Island Public Schools. Schutz and her colleagues have been exploring new ways to use iPod in the classroom.

Action Sports Athletes Tour High Schools

Sponsored by action sports event coordinator ASA, a tour reaching 35 public high schools in seven major metropolitan areas provides students action-packed entertainment from extreme sports professionals and an anti-tobacco message in partnership with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

iPod Personalizes Language Learning

“Traditional language labs were becoming outmoded anyway, as schools were introducing other ways of practicing foreign language speaking and listening skills. Clearly, language students feel most proficient when they have some ownership of the process of learning.

Macintosh Podcatchers

A hotlist of software for subscribing and listening to podcasts on a Macintosh

Windows Podcatchers

A hotlist of software for subscribing and listening to podcasts on in Windows.

Audacity

A free music recording and editing program for both Macs and PCs. An additional download also allows you to create MP3s from your files.

GarageBand

Apple's informational page about GarageBand which is included free with Macs. You can now produce and publish podcasts using GarageBand and iWeb.

ACID Xpress

Free music creation software from Sony.

Easy Podcast

A free PC tool for creating RSS feeds for publicaiton.

Podcast Maker

Shareware ($30) to publish Podcasts on a Mac

Free Podcast Maker

Freeware that allows you to create RSS feeds for your podcast.

Podomatic

A free podcast hosting and publishing site. Allows up to 250 mb of files. After that, you pay.

Odeo

Another podcast creation site that allows you to either record audio or link to audio hosted on another site.

The Educational Podcast Network

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

Science Update Podcasts

Podcasting is a way for you to get the newest Science Update radio shows delivered directly and automatically to your computer, so you don't have to visit our website to download them. The name is misleading—you do not need an iPod or other MP3 player to take advantage of them. All you need is a computer and a software program called an aggregator (or, sometimes, podcatcher ). Popular aggregators include Mac's iTunes and Juice.

Radio WillowWeb

Radio WillowWeb is a podcast for kids and by kids from the students at Willowdale Elemetary School in Omaha, Nebraska. Each new show is called a Willowcast. An outstanding example of how this can be implemented at a school! Be sure to check it out!

Who's Using Podcasting in Education and How?

A hotlist of educational podcasts