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When used educationally, podcasts can empower students and teachers to become content producers rather than content consumers, and they can give them audiences beyond the classroom. Student-created podcasts reinforce course concepts, develop writing skills, hone speaking ability, and even help parents stay current on classroom activities.

If you're looking for a new Icebreaker for that first day of class, you might find one that you like here.

This set of applications lets you set up audio drop-boxes so your students can record and turn in their spoken answers. There are also ways to create worksheets for videos and embed them together in a "mash-up" activity. Especially for foreign language teachers, this seems like an awesome assortment of apps!

Great web site for ESL teachers and students. Provides resources for Spanish speaking families.

Children get to record their voice over an interactive story about the cartoon dog of their choosing! Great way for young students to learn the parts of a story and practice their storytelling skills.

One of my coworkers works for this family and I cried when she shared this video with our classroom teachers. The family made this video because their son/brother has Autism and they wanted to educate the public about the impact of Autism. The boy's sister wrote a song for her brother and performs the song along to slideshow of family pictures.