Thing 21, Week 9

I added the RSS reader feed to my blog for the "Harry Potter Prognosticator" podcasts. Really cool. I can see how finding some podcasts with educational authority could really be beneficial to add for students to access either to a blog or web page to help give them more depth in a subject area. I would like to be able to create our own podcasts to add to the Library blog maybe with book talks or to go over some instruction in the library that we may not have the opportunity to build on with a whole class again. That's always the problem with library instruction: you get the class in their once to go over a specific topic but you don't get them again to build on it. And, the teacher doesn't always support what we're trying to do or they think they don't have the time. I could do a podcast to go over the material again and/or maybe add to it.

I found another podcast called "Book Voyager" which is about children's literature from the perspective of a school librarian...I can see the same possibilities for young adult literature. Ah hah, found it! Here's the link to "YA Book Cast": http://yabookcast.libsyn.com/rss ...I need to listen to some of these and see if it would be worth adding to the Library Blog. ...Okay, so I went ahead and added it to the blog already...it looked too good to pass up. I also found some great things on the Education Podcast Network as well. It would be a better place to start looking since it is other educators sharing what they have already created.