At the rish of sounding trite, podcasts are cool. They are certainly numerous, but they are informative and in many cases they are interesting and informative. I'm convinced one could spend his lifetime listening and viewing podcasts and still not cover all of them all. Educational formats that cover university professors' lectures to first year foreign language programs that deal with a daily word or phrase and even entire first and second year programs, including English as a second language, as well as virtually all academic endeavors represent only a small portion of what is available for the inquiring mind. Podcasts could be useful in the classroom as well since they also deal with science, the environment, physics, nature, politics, history, and global affairs and current events just to mention a few. Depending on the podcast, someone could return to the thrilling years of yesterday by listening to audio (radio) accounts of things that society can and must deal with in the future or he could listen and see a video over things that interest him the most. Podcasts can be very useful as projects for students who want to go the extra mile and create an audio or video of some event that has taken place in real or fictional life. I have often toyed around with the idea of a grammar podcast that would explain one common grammar mistake a day or a week and how to correct it. For example, lie/lay are so confused by the general public that it seems as no one knows the difference or another example of clearing up the common mistake of saying "between you and I" instead of saying "between you and me."
The main idea is that I think students would really get involved in with type of tool because they seem to enjoy working on wikis. This tool would allow them the opportunity to progress from the written word to the world of audio and video.
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