Patty’s Web 2.0 Blog

I visited two podcast sites:  The Education Podcast Network and NPR.  From EPN I listened to two podcasts Teaching with SMARTBoard, specifically for math but with other topics included.  Both topics were useful, and I plan to revisit to tailor some activities to library skills.  The authors chat a bit too much in the beginning and also share some truly bad jokes.  However, students (and some aged librarians) would find them groaningly humorous.  I also subscribed to TechTalk4Teachers and discovered that you can now do a Google image search of Creative Commons images that are usable.  I’m going to attempt demonstrate that with my podcast.

From NPR, I subscribed to a gardening podcast but have not yet listened to it.  I also have an unexplainable fondness for the CarTalk guys, and I’m happy to know that I’ll be able to catch them on a semi-regular basis now.  Very funny. . .

I hope to use podcasts I create to answer those questions we hear over and over again, like “How do I search the catalog by reading level?”, etc. I have also used video tutorials by Professor Edward Burger, Holt, Rinehart Winston Homework Help to clarify math concepts.  If you access the link, click on the video icon.  The Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County has a good children’s page, which includes monthly podcasts with book reviews, jokes, etc.  You may also choose to listen to a story from The Bookhive at that site, and they’re quite good.