The school website has had an experimental podcast on since July 2007. Two Y6 girls had been recording all the weeks news on my voice recorder, for me to then drop into an audacity template and save as an mp3. The file was hosted on the school website, but we had so much trouble getting iTunes to recognise the RSS feed for it.
Well, with the theft of my laptop, iPod and voice recorder everything ground to a halt just before Christmas, but we're off again now.
The school has now bought around two dozen voice recorders, and each class has nominated two "podporters" (class reporters) who will interview children and report the news from their class. The first episode is almost ready and goes out this Friday, so I 've been trying to find a suitable host on the web for the new podcasts. In the end I opted for Jellycast for two reasons;
- 1. they host the Ricky Gervais podcasts, so they are not likely to disappear suddenly with the audience he attracks
- 2. there are some other educational podcasts hosted by them, so they must be suitable for schools
You can see what podcasts we currently have available listed in their directory, and it should be growing soon. All our previous podcasts can be found on this page of the school website.
