The Educational Podcast Directory was user friendly and had a large variety of podcasts available that were are divided into categories. If the categories were divided into specific podcasts for grades,then i would make them easier to find. The sections they do have are "student and class podcasts” and podcasts by “subject specific podcasts”.
Podcast Alley was also user friendly to search for podcasts, but they two were not divieded into subject grades. There is a search box, so you can search for specific podcasts or you can go under genre. Podcast Alley has over 2,000 podcasts for education, but since they are all under the same label it would take some time to find one you are interested in lisenting to.
The podcast that I listened to was a podcast for GRE test preparation. The podcast reviewed vocabulary, specifically word meaning,and synonyms and antonyms of each word. Although I think this could be a helpful podcast for someone who is studing for their test, it is not what I thought it was going to be, but since they are not labeled well it is hard to tell.
Learn Out Loud seemed to be more for selling podcasts, I did not find any free podcast of interest to me.
Podcast are a great tool for a classroom. I had the opportunity to make a podcast with a first grade class this year. I did a lesson on adjectives for the podcasts. The students had so much more fun with adjectives than they usually do because they new they were being recorded. The students were so excited to hear themselves on the podcast, that during the lesson they were very attentive and contributed to the lesson because they wanted to hear their voices on the podcast.
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