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In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals (officially known as the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs). It's now five years on, and we have more work than ever to do. These goals have the power to create a better world by 2030, by ending poverty, fighting inequality and addressing the urgency of climate change.

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Pinna

Subscribe for access to quality kids' podcasts, audiobooks, and shows

Bottom line: For engaging, thought-provoking, ad-free content, it's tough to beat Pinna's classroom-friendly offerings for the price.

Grades: Pre-K–6 Price: Free to try, Paid

Podcasts

Search, access, and organize podcasts from iTunes' free library

Bottom line: This valuable tool helps teachers and students find educational podcasts that can supplement or replace the use of traditional textbooks.

GarageBand

Amazingly powerful audio workstation unleashes creativity

Bottom line: There's exceptional functionality in this solid, all-inclusive audio workstation that's fantastic for high-quality, anytime, and anywhere audio recording and sharing.

Science Friday

A weekly dose of curiosity for teachers and students alike

Bottom line: For a weekly rejuvenation of scientific learning, Science Friday is a source of inspiration for both teachers and students.

Synth

Asynchronous audio response tool encourages all students to speak up

Bottom line: This tool offers classrooms a space for short, impactful voice-based discussions, but it's lacking some key ways to modify the experience.

Listenwise

Bring real-world stories from public radio into the classroom

Bottom line: A fantastic resource that brings both historical and current event public radio stories into the classroom.

Grades: 6–12 Price: Free to try, Paid

StoryCorps

From the everyday to the extraordinary, personal interviews get kids listening

Bottom line: It's a great resource to help demonstrate the value of listening and the importance of storytelling and interviewing skills.

Soundtrap

Powerful online audio production with built-in collaboration features

Bottom line: Soundtrap is a uniquely collaborative sound-production environment, but if you want the top-quality EDU version, you have to pay top dollar.

Grades: 6–12 Price: Free, Free to try, Paid

Anchor

Podcasting app is super easy to use, if you can do it all in one take

Bottom line: There are few easier ways to publish a podcast, but that ease of use comes at the cost of one-take creation and few tools for post-production.

Radio Rookies

Teens share enthusiastic voices on serious topics

Bottom line: Radio Rookies could use a few content updates, but its heart is in the right place and it shows.

YR Media

Dynamic site harnesses creative young talent to speak truth to power

Bottom line: This fresh and socially aware website will draw students in with catchy -- often controversial -- topics, but keep them there with quality content.

NPR: Borderland

Illuminating, up-close-and-personal visit to the U.S.-Mexico border

Bottom line: As a truly unique resource that's worth using, teachers will need to create lessons that scaffold students' understanding of the complex issues found within.

NPR News

Top-notch digital content takes students beyond the airwaves

Bottom line: Provides an easy, fun, and effective way to engage students with radio.

NPR One

Trusty podcast app has quality content but lacks learning supports

Bottom line: An enticing free option for connecting current events to content through podcasts, but student engagement hinges on how you incorporate it.

Science Update

60-second podcasts spark kids' interest with daily fix of science news

Bottom line: Amidst some fun, these audio clips provide a regular dose of news about current scientific research.

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Awesome audio to inspire ideas, and tools to make those ideas into great podcasts. Explore this Best Podcast Apps and Websites for Students Top Picks list of 16 tools curated by Common Sense Education editors to find relevant and engaging edtech solutions for your classroom.

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This is a really wonderful tool to create short audio recordings and share them with your students on your classroom blog/site/wiki. The process is very easy and all it takes is a sign-up and the service is free of charge. One good thing about soundCloud and which you can use with your students is that this tool allows you to add comments to any given moments in the podcast. This could be used by students to give feedback and share comments with each other.

Vocaroo is another awesome web tool to record and share audio clips. Vocaroo does not require any sing-up or software download, just head over to its homepage, and click on record and after you finish you will be provided with links to share your recording with others. Vocaroo also generates a QR code for your podcast.

VoiceThread makes it easy for users to add voice annotation to an artifact, which might be a document, a slide presentation, a video, or a collection of photos. Commentators can add remarks by means of microphone, webcam, keyboard, or telephone. The resulting Flash-based animation contains the original artifact and the commentary on it. In educational settings, students can post visual media, instructors can comment, and peers can offer verbal or text-based assessments. What sets VoiceThread apart from other post-for-comments sites is the ease with which voice commentary can be added

Audioboo is an application for recording and sharing your voice with the world. This free version allows you to create audio up to 3 minutes in length and post that to your own account on the web. You can add titles, tags, geolocation info and a photo to the recording before you upload it and we'll save all that with the file. The audio can then be shared with your site visitors or via Facebook, Twitter & other social networks by managing your account at http://audioboo.fm.

If you are looking for educational podcasts to help you in your professional growth , this list could of great help.

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If the medium is the message, as Marshall McLuhan famously said decades ago, publishing platform Medium gives students and faculty novel ways to get their ideas across. More than your standard blogging site, Medium is a place where users can write and publish content, and interact with one another to build off of ideas and topics. There are shiny publishing tools, fancy Twitter integrations to share work and algorithms that connect readers to other posts that reflect their interests.

In higher education, the creative platform is becoming a critical thinking tool and a way to create a collaborative learning environment. Students and faculty are using Medium for everything from class discussions to "living syllabuses" to portfolio showcases. While the platform works better for some courses than others-Chem 101 lab work isn't always shareable-its use in higher ed is growing, especially in the digital humanities.

Jesse Stommel, executive director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington, is using Medium for his Digital Studies 101 course, which explores the intersection between computers, digital technology, humans and the texts and communities humans make on the web.

Jesse Stommel, executive director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies, University of Mary Washington

Stommel says Medium is a simple platform that students and faculty can get up and running in 15 minutes. "It is an idea for any course, no matter what the discipline, where critical thinking is important-where process is as important as product," he says.

A Critical Thinking Tool

What does a student assignment on Medium actually look like? As one example, Stommel had his students "rebuild the Internet" using non-digital tools to create an interactive or static representation of the Internet. Next, students published their work on Medium-bringing it back to the digital space-and included an artist's statement describing their process. One student visually personified the Internet as a superhuman.

One of Jesse Stommel's students at UMW used Medium to showcase her physical representation of the Internet.

Other professors are using Medium as a way for students to learn how to present their work to an audience outside the walls of academia. UMW Associate Professor Zach Whalen chose to use Medium for his English transmedial storytelling class to help students write publicly and understand their work in the context of authentic audiences.

"By using a group blog to create a sustained conversation, we can potentially engage readers in ways that help us think rhetorically about our collective voice," he explains.

Molly Wright Steenson, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Design, has been using digital platforms in the classroom since she first began teaching in the early 2000s. She's found that Medium is most effective in seminar-style classes where she wants to encourage students to be reflective.

Steenson says she's learned that Medium tends to encourage creativity and make students write differently. "They get excited about it; they don't turn in boring blog posts that I don't like reading and they don't like writing," she says. "It's a nice tool to use that makes it easy to include images and video to support students' storytelling in a more fluid manner," she explains.

Where Syllabuses Can Go Viral

One unique factor that Medium supports is the ability for professors to create a "living syllabus." Both Stommel and Steenson house their syllabuses on Medium and update them as their courses progress.

Since every post on Medium is editable, Stommel says this allows his syllabus and schedule to emerge dynamically over the course of the semester, rather than remaining static.

For Steenson, posting syllabuses helps to engage outsiders who may not be aware of her work in Interaction and Service Design-especially at a master's degree level. "I like that it allows me to create a syllabus in a narrative sense," she says. Alumni of programs she's taught, in addition to well-known interaction designers, read and recommend her innovative postings, such as this syllabus for her Interaction and Service Design Concepts class.

"No one gets excited about your typical paper syllabus, but when you have a document that brings to life the story of the class and what students are doing, then you have something quite different as a result," she reflects.

Good News, Bad News

With all of Medium's potential, all three faculty noted specific challenges and downsides they've encountered with the platform. They cautioned that faculty shouldn't force the platform in cases where it doesn't align with teaching and learning goals.

Steenson says that Medium is not always ideal for collaboration projects because people can't work on the same page like they can in platforms like WordPress. In Medium, separate articles are put together as a publication. She says Medium is most useful in smaller classes, where it's used for individual student reflections.

Along these same lines, Whalen notes that while Medium is relatively simple for students to use, the user interface isn't entirely friendly to content management. "Students have found that it's easy to write and add content, but submitting their article to our publication was not particularly intuitive," he says. He recommends taking time to think through how the workflow and editorial process will fit into your overall course schedule.

Stommel similarly advises engaging students in thoughtful conversations about the hows and whys of digital work rather than throwing them right into a new online environment.

"As with any tool, there's no secret sauce for working with Medium," Stommel admits. "My best advice is to engage students in the what and the why of the tool. Not to merely require students to use the tool for task work, but to ask them to-quite deliberately-consider how they will inhabit the platform."

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Many musicians choose to release their songs under Creative Commons licenses, which give you the legal right to do things like remix them and use samples from them in your tracks for free.

What is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons is a new system, built upon current copyright law, that allows you to legally use "some rights reserved" music, movies, images, and other content - all for free. CC offers free copyright licenses that anyone can use (without a lawyer) to mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. For instance, a musician would use a Creative Commons license to allow people to legally share her songs online, make copies for friends, and even remix or sample them for use in new compositions. For more information, visit our Learn More page.

Where can I find CC-licensed music?

Several sites offer music published under Creative Commons' flexible copyright licenses. Here are a few:

ccMixter is a community remixing site featuring CC-licensed tracks from the Beastie Boys, Danger Mouse, Fort Minor, and hundreds of other artists.

Freesound is a collaborative database of CC-licensed samples and sounds.

SectionZ is an electronic music site offering CC-licensed music in styles like IDM, drum 'n' bass, and ambient.

Jamendo provides CC-licensed music from dozens of genres that you can download with P2P software like BitTorrent and eMule.

Opsound is an aggregator that provides links to a vast collection of CC-licensed music from many genres.

Can I remix or sample any song with a CC license on it?

Almost - you need to make sure that what you want to do with the music is OK under the terms of the particular Creative Commons license it's under. CC-licensed music isn't free for all uses, only some - so make sure to check out the terms (you can find these by clicking on each song's license icon).

For instance, many tracks are licensed under one of CC's noncommercial licenses. A noncommercial license allows you to use a creative work for free, as long as you aren't doing so for commercial purposes. In short, any use that you make money from is a commercial use.

Most importantly, you need to use music that is not licensed under a NoDerivs license. This means that the musician doesn't want you to change, transform, or make a derivative work using their music. Under CC licenses, remixing and sampling amounts to transforming the music, so you can't legally remix or sample a song under a CC NoDerivs license.

Also, make sure to properly credit the musician and the track you remixed or sampled, as well as express the CC license the track is under. For example, you might include text like this alongside your track:

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