Top 10 Reasons to Podcast

Students can record announcements and parents can "subscribe" to them or "listen" on the web

Students can do choral reading to practice fluency

Students can participate in readers' theatre to improve fluency and dramatic reading ability

Students can practice oral presenations to self-evaluate the need for improvement

Students and teachers can record audio narrations to accompany their own movies or presentations

Teachers or volunteers can record vocabulary terms including foreign language words so students can hear the correct pronounciation anytime

Teachers can record notes and directions for students to  play back as needed or for make-up work

It's easy and fun

It provides assistance to visually impaired students and volume controlled repetition for hearing impaired students

It doesn't take anything but a computer, a mircrophone and some free audio editing software