Researching Podcasts

Well there is no shortage of stuff on podcasts out there, that is for sure.
Here is another list of things that teachers can do with Podcasts:
responses to literature
role play with different voices (like a Simpsons episode)
interviews
book talks (critiques of novels, movies, music
poetry sharing
school news
speeches
reading of creative writing
web reviews
world news
jokes
advertisements
persuade someone to join a group
I'd like to take a moment to talk about advertising. I used to teach an English media course under the old curriculum and it involved quite a bit dealing with advertising. English courses have mandated media units and so advertising fits in nicely. It also works with entrepreneurship (spelling?) classes and even philosophy. When I teach logic, I always start with advertising, because it is something that the students are readily able to identify with. Podcasts can be a nice way to explore advertising and logic.
In addition to Audacity software that has already been mentioned, there is a product called Garageband that may also be used.
One nice website that I found is:
http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~magps/boylit/Podcasting%20in%20Education
It includes links to many useful supplementary sites, links to get audacity software and it includes checklists for teachers to follow before staring a podcast in their classroom.
Another useful site I found was:
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/edupodcast/#topofpage
There are a number of links on this page, but I also found that not all of the links worked, so you must look around.
Cheers,
Dan