PUBLIC MARKS from knann with tags hs:english & Podcasts

Every week, Book Review Editor Sam Tanenhaus talks to authors, critics, editors and best-seller columnist Dwight Garner about new books. The files below are in mp3 format, and instructions for subscribing to the weekly podcast are below. Use Google Reader as an easy way to subscribe without having to download the podcast (unless you want to!)

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net (via podcast and catalog). Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. Subscribe via itunes or the site. Are you a great oral-reader? You can also volunteer by signing up at the site.

One Act at a time! Full text, full cast! Voices from Los Medanos College, Antioch Classical Theatre Company, & Antioch High School. Not complete at this time. Perhaps you can create the last few acts on your own....

The Write Kit is an interactive DVD Video for Key Stage 3 creative writing students studying the National Curriculum (England). With this video podcast and you'll receive weekly instalments previewing one of the exercises on the DVD: 'The Bomb'. This has been devised and written by Michael Symmons Roberts, winner of the 2004/5 Whitbread Prize for Poetry. The podcasts are produced by 186 Media, a multimedia production company specialising in educational resources and based in the UK

Great, easy to use site with reviews/summaries of books for all ages. There is an entire section devoted to student submitted booktalks. Subscribe via rss for these mp3 recorded booktalks. Try Google Reader as an alternative to iTunes subscription so you can listen online without downloading. http://nancykeane.com/rss.html Play it on your iPod!