My previous experience with podcasts has always either been related to interviews with authors that I am reading a novel by or an author that I am teaching to my students. The other way that I have used podcasts is for workouts (both video and audio). I used a running podcast that helps train you for a half-marathon through verbal commands and music that quickens and slows your running pace using music tracks with various bpm's.
For my class, I looked at the podcast Grammar Girl who provides a fun and easy way to remember grammar rules and also clears up common grammar mistakes. Grammar can be a pretty dry topic to teach to students and I think that students would enjoy changing up the mode of direct instruction when working with grammar.
The second podcast that I subscribed to I found under iTunesU under Language Arts. "Paradise Valley USD: Language Arts" podcast provides several video lessons over common concepts such as MLA headings and short story elements. I like the videos because they teach commonly taught language arts concepts and can easily be utilized in the classroom as a means of direct instruction or to reinforce direct instruction. I think the podcasts are pretty cool and utimately the type of podcast I plan to make for classroom use.
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I had never looked for podcasts on running. Great idea. I passed that on to my xcountry running son! Sounds like you found a great podcast from USD. I agree with you...podcasts are a great tool.
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