It was probably over ten years ago when our after-school multi-media club began creating podcasts for our school using GarageBand on our MacBook Pro. The students put a lot of work into each episode – adding intros and outros, recording segments of trivia and riddles, and playing around with bumpers and stingers. Unfortunately, our audience was small – basically the families of the students in the club and one loyal second grade teacher who played them for her class each week. Many people had never heard of podcasts back then, and there weren’t as many distribution hubs or options for subscriptions. Perhaps even more importantly, many educators did not see a way to integrate them into their lessons.
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