The web is not just for text anymore, more web sites are using audio & podcast broadcasts to grab the 'ears' of users and to transfer information and learning.
Check out the podcasts from Colonial Williamsburg: Past and Present. This interactive website contains teacher lesson plans, photo slide shows, online exhibits, and online field trips. The website also makes use of a new technology- audio files or podcasts- so people can listen on their computers or their portable music players to learn how people lived in the 18th century.
Today's learners are not only readers, they want to learn and learn in new ways, through media they are accustomed to using. Just ask any young person with earbuds hanging from their necks which medium they prefer.
Some other sites that make use of podcasts for learning:
Think how you can use podcasts in your curriculum in such ways as learning a language, math, science, literature, or history. Take your students on an electronic field trip when a "real-time" trip isn't possible.
You can build even you own electronic field trips by adding pictures to Flickr, creating a slideshow, then add podcasts websites to complete the trip with audio providing your students with opportunities to travel virtually.
Grab the attention of the young wired generation by adding voice and audio and entice them to learn more. Nice hook!
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