Kicking and Screaming into the 21st Century

Podcasts…something my children are familiar and comfortable with, but me, not so much. Oh, I’m not scared of them or anything, it’s just that I see them as potential time-takers and I don’t have much to spare. So, I haven’t really pursued podcasts in any meaningful way.

So, for Thing #3, I gotta do podcasts! I was reading Cathy Nelson’s post and she recommended the K-12 Online Conference as a useful podcast. It seems tailor-made for me, in that I can pick and choose among offerings, only listen to what I really want to learn about and do it all for free. I subscribed to this one in my feed reader, which means that it will be right there ready for me to listen to anytime I open Google Reader.

Then I was reading Heather Loy’s post about Thing 3 and I found ANOTHER podcast to get. This one is Nancy Keane’s Booktalks Quick and Simple. I subscribed to this one via iTunes. It was very simple to subscribe to, and I even found some other podcasts that I added. Unfortunately, you can see that this has the potential to use up even more of my not-very-available free time, which is what I was afraid of in the first place. It is a vicious circle!! However, I consider all of this to be PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, which is important to me, so i shall persevere. Wish me luck!!