Idea #1: Interview candidates for local office, or town officials about top issues in your community.

Idea #2: Create a daily school news podcast, including an issue of the day such as copyright/music downloading/file sharing, Internet safety tips, or newest web 2.0 applications.

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• Livingston High School's Reading Blog is a forum for students and staff to share their literary experiences and original work. In 2007, the blog offers podcasts and a book review contest. See

tdoyle@MUSDD.K12.ca.ushttp://lhsblog.edublogs.org.

• Invite parents of young children to read (and record) 2-3 books to their child. Have them include parent-child comments and discussion. Create podcast collection of parent-read stories and post to the classroom or library website. Why have a celebrity reader for young children, when parents/grandparents/older siblings are young peoples' celebrities. [For older students, have students each read/record a story. Consider having each student buddy-up with a "page-turner" helper.]

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• Create a podcast tour of the library for the 9th grade library orientation. I hope to make this a part of the orientation that students could actually download to their MP3 players and walk around the library. I want to include it as part of an online library orientation package, maybe posted in a wiki. This could take the form of an audio podcast or have video or screenshots on the computer version.

• Use DailyLit to sends a chapter a day of selected classics to reluctant readers, or those students that request it.

Idea #7. Instruct students to find a youtube video they find interesting on an aspect of Physics ( or whatever subject). Then assign them the information literacy task of verifying the accuracy of the video.

Idea #8 Create an electronic "vertical file" of podcasts that you know will be useful to teachers. Use iTunes, even without iPod, to organize them. Then gently push these forward to your teachers. I am going to start with This American Life and US History.

Idea #9. I Have students to record books for the free book sites as part of community service.

Idea #10. I Have students develop community service Vodcasts on Internet safety.

Idea # 11. Use Vodcasts and YouTube as hooks or introductions to subjects.

Idea # 12. Prepare a Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) project, and have students search ScienceHack for science videos to be utilized for research or within a presentation.  Cross curricular tie-in, Language Arts/Science: Students read, "Life as we knew it" by Pfeffer and searchs for moon, tides, earthquakes, vocanoes. View "Why doesn't the moon fall down".