Using podcasts for your child's education

Many homeschooling sites promote listening to books on CD. I have found that it is expensive to buy them, especially here in Oz. We can borrow the CD's from the library but they don't always have what we want.

Recently I have found a few great podcasts that we will be incorporating into our schooling program as well as for entertainment.

The only thing you need is an iTunes account (free) and a listening device, either a computer or mp3 player. To find the podcasts you are looking for...

1. Go to the iTunes
2.  click on iTunes store
3. Then search for the name of the podcast in the upper right hand corner

Here is a list of podcasts that we subscribe to for free:

StoryNory - Classic stories read aloud. The girls are listening to Thumbelina as I type this out. If you go to their website you can find many of their archived podcasts.



   Free Audiobooks for Children by letmetellyouatale.com- Similar to StoryNory. Lots of Anderson, Grimm, and Kipling.

 



Old Time Radio  - Mystery, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Thriller, this site as them all. . I grew up listening to the Sherlock Holmes series on tape. They were great.  I would love to listen to  "Who's on First?" sometime soon. Here are a few series that we as a family will be listening to soon:
Little Orphan Annie
Abbott and Costello
Hopalong Cassidy
The Lone Ranger
Sherlock Holmes

The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast - We used to listen to these every Saturday morning. I remember we would all crowd on the couch with the volume up as loud as mom would allow. Adventures in Odyssey is a radio series about a the event that occur in the town called Odyssey. They have a Christian theme running throughout. Sometimes the kids in the show are transported back to Bible times where they are eyewitnesses to Bible stories. They post a free episode every so often. You can buy complete series from Koorong, Amazon, etc.

Sesame Street Vodcast - (vodcast = podcast + video)  We use these while flying. A great way for some spontaneous entertainment when everyone is tired of waiting for the luggage to come down the chute.





One more thing.
Often if you type in a particular book title in the iTunes search you can find entire books on podcast or to buy. I recently found the entire Wind in the Willows audiobook on podcast for free. You can also buy the audiobook from the iTunes audiobook library for 5$ Awesome!


Enjoy!