Pod Casts

Searching for Podcasts seemed more difficult than I originally thought. Now that I am out of Graduate school I feel like I am not kept up to date on the new children's literature that is coming out. I found a really cool feed called Book Bites for Kids. Through this podcast the producer discusses new books that are coming out and interviews the authors. If one was doing an author study, this might be a good way to allow your students to listen to their favorite author speak about his/her work. There were other cool podcasts such as "Book Voyages" which is a children's literature review from the perspective of a librarian. I can see how pod casts could be very beneficial to a teacher. I am not quite so sure how it would fit into the elementary curriculum. I would probably need to explore more in order to see its benefit in the classroom.