I've *loved* podcasts for the last 3 - 4 years. Since I've gotten older, I've become a big talk radio person, mostly due to sports. Sadly, the commercials drive me nuts. The other side that's bugged me is that I grew up in CIncinnati, so am an out-of-town sports fan, and after a while Detroit sports talk wasn't doing it for me. When WDFN died a couple of years ago, I totally have ignored the radio in my car in favor of my iPod. When it's just me in the car, I pretty much only listen to podcasts.
The ones I listen to fall under a couple of categories...
Sports
1) Cincinnati Sports podcast - no ads - depending on the season, usually updated every other week
2) ESPN - Around the Horn & PTI (these are audio versions of the TV shows on ESPN) - 1 ad at the beginning - updated daily
3) The BS Report - a podcast by Bill Simmons, an ESPN columnist - 1 ad at the beginning - updated 2 - 3 times a week
Tech - there is *only* one... called TWiT. This Week in Tech. Leo LaPorte is a former TechTV guy who used to have a radio show. His podcast is fantastic, and most of the new stuff I've learned about technology (like Google Docs, and cloud computing), I've learned from the TWiT podcast. 4 commercials in a 2 hr podcast. Updated weekly
News/Sports - The Tony Kornheiser Show... A Washington DC radio show with a nice mix of news, entertainment & sports - no ads - updated daily
Entertainment - Movies You Should See - A British podcast discussing a movie each week. Very funny, fairly explicit, and some nice discussions. 1 ad at the beginning. Besides, everything is better with a British accent.
And last, I found this one this past summer. (If you prefer to save it to listen to later, here's the link. It's after the interview). It has several segments, but the first is MythBuster Adam Savage talking about his way to improve science education... Given money and time, it sounds perfect :-) I also learned about a couple of other potential applications (including the Smart Pen) that have interesting possibilities in the classroom. Kathy, what are the chances we can get the social networking thing (ELGG.. it's free!!) in the district?
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I think we're heading toward social networking in the district but the tool would be MySite (a SharePoint application) rather than ELGG.
ReplyDeleteIs MySite a web hosting thing, or is it more like an internal Facebook type app? As I listened to the podcast (about the 25 minute mark or so), I interpret ELGG as a Facebook that would stay within our servers. The cool thing they talk about is that students can create profiles for historical figures, and then two scientists that might have been involved in calculus will be automatically linked (friended). It sounds really cool. And best of all it's FREE!
ReplyDeleteMySite would be more like an internal Facebook for staff. I'll let you know if I hear about other area schools trying out ELGG.
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