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Congrats to Randy Kolset of Saddleback for taking Podcasts to a new level with Vocabucasts!  What’s a Vocabucast? You Ask!  A podcast of his students’ vocabulary words of course!  I’d love to compare reading scores after he implemented this great idea!

To check out examples of Vocabucasts and Homework Radio, visit Randy’s website

http://web.mac.com/rkolset/iWeb/ClassroomSite/Room22-Blog/Room22-Blog.html

Did you know that DEN has it’s own Podcasts featured on iTunes?!?  Now you can hear from DEN experts from around the nation reporting to you on a variety of topics.  All you need to do is search "Discovery Educator Network" on iTunes.

Here’s a brief description on our first 3 podcasts…. Let us know what you think… or who you would like to hear from!

DEN Podcast 3: Features a very informative interview with Bernajean Porter, author of Digitales: The Art of Digital Storytelling and the creator of the website Digitales.

DEN Podcast 2: A variety of topics including but not limited to our recent partnership endeavor with Google; The Elmer’s Glue support for schools and science teachers; The T+L Conference in November and what opportunities it provides for educators; Exciting new releases within unitedstreaming; And of course many other exciting insider details on Discovery Education and the DEN

DEN Podcast 1: Focus on Discovery Educators themselves and their thoughts about technology and education.  All of the interviews for this podcast were recorded at the TCEA conference in Texas.

Here’s some inspiration for all of us this year!

DEN Member Linda Rood, of Saddleback Valley Unified School District, 2nd graders are award winning podcasters!!! That’s right!  Even 2nd graders are getting swept away in the podcasting craze! You have to check out some of their podcasts at

http://web.mac.com/lrood/iWeb/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html

What I love the most about their site is all the different types of podcasting that they did.  Check out their mother and father day gifts!  What parent wouldn’t love that?!?

Congratulations for a job well done Linda!