Podcasts and Voicethreads in the Classroom

As we discussed in class, podcasts and voicethreads could be very useful in the classroom. Uses could range from interviews (real and role-played), to uses with shy students, to voice blogs, to radio plays, to reading for the blind and many others. Below are some interesting links to how others are using podcasts and voicethreads.

Here is a good tutorial on how to use podcasts in the classroom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExkMeQfuLGc

Here is a huge list of different podcasts spanning many different subject areas:

http://www.onlineclasses.org/2011/01/25/80-excellent-podcasts-for-every-kind-of-classroom/

There are some excellent examples of the use of voicethreads in the classroom at this site:

http://www.slideshare.net/suziea/voicethread-examples-in-education-presentation

I have only begun to scratch the surface of using these technologies in the classroom and will be browsing these and other sites in the future.