Ramblings et al

I’m a fan already of podcasts. I am actually listening to “Car Talk” (silly and frivolous) as I work on this. I love the NPR podcast and started checking out the Grammar Girl stuff. I liked the Go Green Girl and The Migthy Mommy podcasts. I really think that I could use the Grammar Girl podcast for warm up exercises with my students, maybe a once a week listening activity during the first few minutes of class (6th graders are such crack listeners). I also think the the Go Green Girl site could be useful with the green initiative the we are working on at school, so another possibility for educating the kids. Other ideas I’m working on are working in podcasts with their choice assignments for independent reading or using them to let the students explain concepts or class content for a class page that absent students can listen/watch (they explain better at times than I do!) to find out what went on in class that day. As always, gotta play with this one!