Podcast Partnership

I started listening to podcasts several years ago. I started with radio shows I liked and eventually discovered many podcasts I liked. I find them a great source of knowledge, enjoyable to listen to, and convenient. For some time now, I've wanted to make a podcast. In our biology methods, one of our assessments was a blog post about an issue related to biology teaching to discuss, analyse, and give an informed opinion of. The 'professional voice' type thing. My biology colleague, Mark Danaro, and I worked together to publish a podcast on 'inquiry-based learning' and it's place in the science classroom. We included a discussion of the research for and against, interviews and our perspectives on inquiry learning. We used garage band (on Macs) and uploaded it via our biology blog, posterous.com
Check it out!
It was a lot of fun, some hard work, and I learned a lot. I hope to continue to produce regular podcasts as a science teacher, hopefully with a colleague, that would be targeted at students. We'd talk about science news, relevant issues, our science curriculum, and anything else science! I'm thinking I could even make this part of my assessment scheme. Students would be responsible to choose a topic, research, interview, and draft a layout of a discussion between me and any guests the student organised.
I suppose some students may not want their voice published, which I would respect, but overall I think students will try their best if they know their work will be available online.