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Storycaching is a proof-of-concept project combining GPS units, iPods, and laptop computers to create, store and share audio stories where absolute place is important. By using a GPS to locate a specific point on the earth and then listening to a podcast specific to that area, a new dimension in communication is created. Also, an artifact, trinket, or other symbolic object can be cached at that exact site adding a compelling relevance to the story. The experience could even include the podcast guiding the listener to the cache from the beginning point noted by the GPS. Once combined, the iPod and the GPS will recreate concept of sharing stories both in the capabilities of the storyteller and the expectations of the listener. via Brenda Muench

A podcast is a digital audio recording. In my classes, students use headsets to create these recordings using a free program called Audacity. We save these podcasts in a .mp3 format, so students could upload them to their ipods or mp3 players, and we can upload them onto our Google Groups discussion board. Follow the links to hear some examples of podcasts and for step-by-step directions to creating your own!

"Take a Tour of the Human Body! As a part of our study of human body systems, the fifth graders of Southfield Christian School used their imagination and the information that they learned to create "tours" of the various body systems. Be prepared to vacation at the "Pancreas Hotel," take a water park ride through the circulatory system, or rock climb up the muscular system! Click on the tours listed below, or click on "Go to Archive" (on the left) to see the entire list of 15 tours! If you wish to download them to your iPod, click on the subscribe button which will take you to iTunes."

Did you know the Library provides podcasts of some of its presentations and online resources? Listen to book festival presentations, material on music and its impact on the brain and oral history interviews with African Americans who provide first-person accounts of the hardships of the slave plantations and of life during and after slavery. Download the audio recording and a transcript of the program to your iPod, other portable media player, or to your computer from the Library of Congress website. You may choose to automatically download this and subsequent episodes via a free subscription from the Library's podcast website or through Apple iTunes.

The best way to learn to podcast is to listen to podcasts.

You will make better podcasts if you are a podcast listener first.

Podcasts at Lucy Gray's school

Keith Mitchell's resources