Podcast: Youth Radio: Connecting Youth Voices to the World
Description: a website where students and teachers can post podcasts relating to their school curriculum; most of the podcasts are student voices, but teachers often introduce the content of the podcast.
Pros: able to hear students talk about their projects; an authentic "window" into classrooms around the world.
Cons: varying degrees of quality; some podcasts are very difficult to understand, either because of poor student voice projection or quality of equipment or environment.
Podcast: Ourmedia: The Roaring 20s
Description: a production by 10th grade English students in Georgia about the Lost Generation and the Roaring 20s, as wells as authors and literature that came from this era.
Pros: very well produced. Students project their voices well and the quality of the recording is good. These students produced several podcasts about this topic, so it is easy to listen to it in chunks. You can link to the other podcasts via The Education Podcast Network.
Cons: not many. I suppose that a transcript or index of what each podcast includes would be helpful.
Podcast: Hopkinton (NH) High School Library Podcasts
Description: podcasts created by school librarians about books nominated for awards.
Pros: opportunity to get a literature expert's review about new books
Cons: wordy; librarians seem to talk alot about themselves and their review gets dull
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