Podcasting and Podcatching

I have attached a link to the title of this posting to the podcast for beginners site. They say there are a lot of resources listed.....I will check later. They weren't kidding when they said this was for beginners, but I did pick up a few things, and truly I am still a beginner, even though Judy and I posted one last week! Podcasts give students voice, an audience, a mission, and experience. A good example of a student podcast is "Tech Savvy Girlz". Search it on iTunes. Using a digital voice recorder may be a good idea, that way we can have students record the audio, download it, then attach it to a powerpoint or photostory, or whatever, might be easier.An Olympus ws 311m is a good one, built in USB, but there are cheaper ones, check google products. Some software to look at in creating podcasts include: profcast - records a PowerPoint then publishes it as a podcast...ichat, skype - obtaining audio from long distances, say for doing an interview, Gcast - cell phone podcasting. Editing software - Garageband, Audacity, Amadeus, Mixcastlive, PodcastMaker, Podmatic, Feed4All, PodProducer. Good web resources - EdTechTalk.com, Lit2Go. Two good books Kidcast and iLife in the Classroom, both available at Amazon.