Article
Other

Analog to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article discusses the importance of teaching students how to write for an online audience using traditional writing skills but transitioning these to digital media. The author talks about ways to incorporate social media and...
Article
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Podcasting With Your Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here you can learn about ways that other teachers are doing with podcasting in the classroom. A tab on the left provides additional information about how to podcast
Website
Other

Peachpit: Podcasting Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
This article by the author of "Secrets of the iPod" provides an excellent overview of podcasting. It explains what podcasting is and gives step-by-step instructions for subscribing to and listening to podcasts with an iPod or on your...
Activity
National Geographic

National Geographic: Using Waste Heat to Generate Electricity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about waste heat capture, how it can be re-used to generate electricity and develop a podcast educating others about it. Includes student handouts and links to many online resources.
Article
Other

Rss Specifications

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of articles about RSS news feeds and contains "everything you need to know about RSS". The articles on various topics are available via RSS feed and podcast.Users select the RSS feeds (content) they wish to...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students begin this lesson by discussing what makes a good, vivid story and creating a working checklist of the criteria for a good story. They explore background information about the Mercury Theatre production of the "War of the...
Primary
Georgetown University

Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Buildings and Memorials

For Students 9th - 10th
The unifying themes of this podcast are memorialization and reconciliation. In this podcast, Georgetown University and American Studies student Kelly Skeen discusses how Georgetown University has memorialized its historic ties to the...