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Not all the podcasts were designed the same. I listed to a few that sounded like a radio show with lots of talking that didn't pertain to much about school. One I listened to that I really liked discussed using ipods in the place of listing stations. A couple of arguments they used were to take something that was a challenge and turn it into a positive thing. Instead of fighting children to get them to leave ipods at home let them bring the ipod and listen to stories or something educational, that could of course be monitored.

Another podcast looked at the new technology that is available to this generation. I don't know if anyone has seen the computer table games at the new McDonald's, but in one of the podcast the host described these games. They are, for the most part, educational games with things like math, reading, and spelling, and gets the child interested in learning because today's generation loves video and computer games. Children do need physical activity and contact but we should be able incorporate some of the things they like into daily learning.

Each pocast seems to be set up different. Some take the radio sound. By this I mean they come off sounding like a radio talk show discussing different topics realted to school. Where as another does more interviews, which is where they had teachers call in and put their comments on the podcast. One was just a guy that sat talked about what he thought was important for children to learn and discussed different ways to get them to explore those ideas. Such as question about what they are learning.

It seems podcats don't really have a set way to go about the discussion on a topic. Although they all did start off stating who they were and what they were going to discuss. I guess the best type of podcast for one may not work for another. It's about figureing out how you want to sound when you play back the podcast. Do you want it to sound like a radio show? Do you want it to come off as a phone converstation? Or maybe a debate about something. Either way you chose to go there really isn't a wrong way as long you discuss the topic at hand in some detail.