Nicole Hennig - Best Podcasts for Diverse Audiences: Complete Bundle

Welcome to Best Podcasts for Diverse Audiences: Complete Bundle. Podcasts are exploding in popularity these days. There are so many that it can be hard to find the best ones! And there are more podcasts by and for diverse audiences than when podcasting was new.

To help you find the best podcasts, Ive created a set of short books:

• Best Podcasts: Children & Teens
• Best Podcasts: Feminism & LGBTQ
• Best Podcasts: People with Disabilities
• Best Podcasts: Racial Diversity
• Best Podcasts: The Digital Divide
• Best Podcasts: Technology & Society
• Best Podcasts: Discovery Tools

This bundle edition contains all the titles above.

This guide is for anyone interested in these topics, and also for librarians and educators anyone who recommends podcasts for other people.

If youre not familiar with podcasts or how to listen to them, read the chapter later in this book called How to Listen for some tips.

Im Nicole Hennig, an expert in mobile technologies for libraries. In my 14 years of experience at the MIT Libraries, I worked to keep academics up to date with the best mobile technologies, and won awards for innovation. Now I have my own business helping librarians stay current with new technologies.

Like most librarians, I am passionate about access to information for all. Mobile apps with their touchscreens and speech interfaces are empowering for all ages and abilities and librarians who take my courses are becoming technology experts for their communities.

If youre interested in learning more about mobile technologies for education, and how to keep up with emerging technologies, take a look at this list of my other books and courses.

To stay current with the best technologies that help provide access to information for everyone, sign up for my email newsletter, Mobile Apps News. Its an easy way to keep up with the best new educational apps and technologies.

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Read on to learn about some fun and educational podcasts and the best ways to find more of them.

Are there many good podcasts for kids? Some say no see, Where Are All the Kidcasts? Kids learn from podcasts, so why arent adults making more for them? (The Atlantic, Mar. 31, 2016)

I agree that there ought to be more, but even right now there are some high-quality podcasts for kids.

This chapter lists some of the best ones, with topics such as:

• classic and modern stories
• stories written by kids
• book reviews
• quiz shows
• science
• technology
• comics
• music
• world cultures.

Follow the link on each title to visit each podcast website. Read on, for some fun and fascinating podcasts!

These fictional stories are written by kids who are finalists in a 500-word story competition. They range from very funny to serious and are read by the judges and celebrities. Its a BBC podcast and the kids who enter the competition need to be residents of the UK and between 5 and 13 years old.

Listen to the time-traveling adventures of a boy and his computer companion in the prehistoric world. Start from the beginning of the first season to experience the larger story arc. The first season is about dinosaurs, and the next few seasons cover mammals, ocean creatures, and more. Aaron and his dad started producing the show when he was six and ended when he was nine. Its well produced with fun sound-effects.

This is a fun quiz podcast for kids and families. Its produced by game developer Aaron Robbins, and features an episodic story, with 10 to 24 questions about popular kids cartoons, shows, videos games, theme parks and cultural phenomena.

This is a podcast where middle school kids meet to talk about books. Each episode also includes a celebrity reader and an interview with the author. The host is award-winning public radio journalist Kitty Felde.

This is a very popular science podcast for kids, with a loyal audience of 6-to-12-year-olds. Each episode seeks to answer a question posed at the start by interviewing adult science experts. (How is glass made?, How do airplanes fly?, Mosquitos: what are they good for?) A different child co-hosts each episode, together with adult hosts from public radio Sanden Totten, Marc Sanchez, and Molly Bloom.

In this show from Vermont Public Radio, each episode focuses on questions submitted by kids. You can record your childs question with a smartphone, and send the recording to questions@butwhykids.org. They ask for your childs first name, age, and town. All sorts of topics are covered, such as why is the sky blue? and how is chocolate made?