Podbean



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=Overview= Create and publish podcasts quickly and easily, or subscribe to your favorite podcasts and listen to them on the go using PodBean.com!

Publishers can use Podbean’s user-friendly interface to upload, publish, manage, promote, and customize their podcasts. Publishers can receive detailed information on the visitors to their podcasts, subscribers, hits, and geographical distribution through Podbean’s outstanding analysis tools. Podbean allows publishers to make a profit too through advertisement, paid subscription, and merchandise sales.

Podcast subscribers can listen to Podbean podcasts anywhere with an internet connection, including on mobile phones. You can also find out what others with your same interests are listening to, organize your podcasts by category, and share podcasts with your friends through Facebook.

Podbean is an exciting podcast social subscribing site allowing you to be a creative publisher or part of the audience in a growing community of over 450,000 podcasters and over 2 million episodes! Visit [|Podbean.com] to get started!

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 * **Virtual Classroom** - With Podbean, teachers can create lectures or other content for students to view. A course or unit could be created for students to subscribe to and view. This could be very powerful if teachers are considering using a flipped classroom approach, where the students could view the content from home and have learning experiences in the classroom.
 * **Study Tool** - Podcasts could be created that revolve around reviewing a certain topic and preparing for a test or exam. Students could even produce the podcasts and others could view them when studying.
 * **School or classroom communication** - A tool such as Podbean could be used to create a news broadcasting project. Students could create podcasts to share school wide or classroom information with others.
 * **Distance learning** - With Podbean, distance holds no boundaries. Schools from around the world can collaborate through podcasts. Both students and teachers could create podcasts that others can learn from.
 * **Reading Fluency** - Students could record a podcast of their own reading. From there, they could evaluate their own fluency or others could listen to it and give feedback. These reading samples could be shared with feature classes to critique.
 * **Learning journal** - Students could use a Podbean as a digital journal for their learning. Time could be set aside for them to record their own reflections. This could be very powerful at the end of the year for students to look back and listen to all they have learned.
 * **Math** - Catchy songs or poems could be recorded for helping students learn different math facts or concepts. Students could create their own rhymes or tricks they have learned and discovered. This could be a great way to teach students how their own learning can be shared with others around the world.
 * **Book Reports** - Instead of a written report or project, students could create a recording of their book report. Teachers could have the students experiment with different styles of communication such as advertisements, persuasive, or informative.
 * **Current Events** - There are numerous podcasts that revolve around current events. Students could listen to these as part of a social studies class or research project. CNN for students seemed like a great option for middle school and high school students.
 * **ESL or ELL students** - Podbean could be used for students that are new to an English speaking environment. They could practice their speaking skills or use podcasts as a way to review material learned in class.
 * **Absent Students** - Create a brief lesson summary for absent students.