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Spreaker is a free online cloud-based web audio platform. With this tool, you can create your own podcasts and live Internet radio shows. You can either pre-record or broadcast live, if you prefer. The magic of Spreaker happens on their unique interactive DJ Console. The tool gives you total control over your project, and allows you to spice things up using a wide range of preloaded music and sound effects. You can also upload your own media files to incorporate into your own unique Spreaker projects. Spreaker's basic account is free and gives 10 hours of audio storage, and a maximum of a 30 min. live broadcast, though the number of times you can broadcast is unlimited. How Can You Use Spreaker in a Classroom? As a classroom tool, Spreaker offers the perfect introductory platform for students to learn about broadcasting design and delivery. They can share their thoughts and opinions about subjects they love or are learning about in their own podcasts. For those more ambitious students, a group can design and develop a full regular live radio show for keeping fellow students informed about school events and news, and also news around the community, or even the world. Spreaker also lets you share content on social media sites like Facebook using a unique "player widget", along with embedding options for student blogs and websites. How Does Spreaker Develop the 21st Century Fluencies? Solution Fluency-When delivering a solution to a problem, how would students get a message across to a wide audience? Podcasting or a live radio show is a great way to do it. Spreaker not only provides a perfect audio tool for these kinds of projects, but also lets projects be shared with ease. Information Fluency-Podcast and radio show development requires that certain considerations be made with its structuring, and certainly with its content. When developing projects for Spreaker, students will be researching how such shows are created and revised, and how content for