Podcasting Library Orientation
When I worked at a high school, I held library orientation for Freshman at the beginning of each school year. Inevitably, there were students who missed it or transferred into our school after orientation. It was always easy to identify these students as classes began working on research assignments. I would then attempt to provide them an on-the-spot, watered down version of the orientation. Having the orientation available as a podcast would really work wonders (and would be a way to clone myself) for getting students up to speed. Most likely, the podcast would also catch and hold student interest better than my PowerPoint slides (which I think are pretty snazzy). Beyond the orientation, podcasting is an excellent way to capture verbal instruction on any topic in the library (or classroom).
