Pod Party

I had heard of podcasts, but had never seen or heard one in action. I listened to an author interview with Suzanne Collins the author of Hunger Games.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112119277

It was very interesting. Collins talked about several inspirations for her story including Greek myths, reality TV, and the movie Spartacus. This would be great information for our students as they work on writing. About three years ago I had five 7th graders writing their own novels. They would have loved a broadcast like this. I can see using this in a library first and most obviously as a book talk. But I think an even better use would be to use it to create projects that classes could share with other classes both with in the school and among other schools. I could see using it in history classes to share different viewpoints of a historical event. Science classes could jigsaw to present different concepts. I think it would be great for teachers within a subject in the same district,using it to teach parts of lessons. In my school, one of our math teachers uses a classroom management system that really needs to be viewed to understand it enough for other teachers to implement. This is a technology I intend to investigate further.