podintro

=**What is Podcasting?**= A podcast is often described as Tivo for radio. Podcasts are audio or video productions that you can subsribe to, so that when new episodes are published, they come to you instead of your having to go get them. You can then play them any time, any place. You no longer need to tune in at a certain time to listen to content to which you subsribe.

Podcasting allows users another medium for having conversations. There are educational podcasts on just about every subject, and more are being created every day. It's easy to search, subscribe, and listen to podcasts. Creating and publishing podcasts is becoming increasingly easy //and fun// as well.

For an introduction to podcasting, listen to [|Podcast Palooza], by [|Tim Wilson], recorded at the Florida Educational Technology Conference. Another great how-to "vodcast" or video podcast, created by 3rd grade students in [|Bob Sprankle']s [|Room 208] class, demonstrates the [|process of how to make a classroom podcast].

=Legal Documents= [|AUP] (Acceptable Use Policy) Students must abide by LAUSD's AUP. Parents and students need to sign and return this document to school, where it must be filed for the entire time that the student attends that school. [|Photo/Personal Information Release Form] Please have a signed form for any student who will be participating in a project that will be published publicly.

=**Pre-Assessment**= Go to [|EdTechProfile] to assess skills.
 * Assess technology skills.**