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I published my first Connect Learning podcast in January, fully intending to do it once, so that I could speak about it with some experience, and sixty-three episodes later, I'm posting programs about every ten days. My programs are usually comprised of some original ideas, a story, and interviews with people I meet at conferences. This, I believe, is my main contributions, that I am able to attend conferences across the country and beyond, and can share, through the interviews, some of the learning and energy with educators who are not able to attend.

I currently use an iPod in Griffin iTalk for recording my podcasts. For producing the podcasts, I use an Apple PowerBook computers with Audacity and GarageBands doing the editing. For many months, I used OurMedia and Archive.Org to host the podcast, but have since switched over the SlapCast, because of their support of schools in the Washington, DC area.

There is much that can be said about podcasting, but the bottom line is that it helps me do my job, and it is simply too much fun. The technology is extraordinarily accessible, especially considering the outcomes, and anyone with a laptop, equipped with a microphone, can be podcasting in about two-hours or sooner -- for free.

The stories that I have heard from teachers who use podcasting in their classrooms have convinced me that their value for teaching and learning are astounding. It not only gives students a voice for their learning, but it also has the potential to engage students with the world they are learning about, making them part of the global conversation, empowering them as citizen-learners, instead of mere children in a classroom.

How I Produce my Podcasts

• David Warlick -- Connect Learning
• Jeff Moore -- http://onebighead.blogspot.com/ One Big Head
• Bud Hunt -- Bud the Teacher
• Steve Dembo -- Teach42
• Eric Jefcoat -- Paradigm Shift
• Jean-Claude Bradley -- Drexel CoAS E-Learning
• Cheryl Oakes -- Wells Elementary Computer Lab