Web radio

Web radio

Public Radio Sites

WUMB Folk Radio

This is a Folk Music Station that is broadcast out of Boston. You can listen live to music in several different formats, hear streams of different types of folk music, hear new music of the week, and read interviews of folk singers. You can also select to listen to archived programs from various shows that the station airs. Over 10 shows are available for your listening pleasure. Being a folk music fan myself, I have to say that this station is GREAT!

http://www.wumb.org/home/index.php

Wisconsin Public Radio

This website has a huge toolbar on the homepage making it very easy to navigate. A list of shows that you can access and listen to is front and center, and other website features are listed next to that. Three sections that are largest on the homepage are WPR News, WPR Music Service, and WPR Ideas Network. Each of these links offers new and archived news reports, music and shows. Show topics range from pets to general health. A great site all around for any public radio lover.

http://www.wpr.org/

Poetry Site

BBC Arts

This is a site that contains poets reading one of their works. The poetry is all recent and most of the artists are from England, Ireland or the Caribbean. The list contains 20 poets that you can listen to. But, you can also see poetry that has been turned into a movie, LEAF poetry (Literature Expressed As Foliage), animated poetry or try your hand at the art with the site’s magnetic poetry play page. This site would be fun for kids who hate poetry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/

Streaming Audio

Louisiana Folklife Program

As the site says, this is streaming audio on traditional life in Louisiana. There are 13 audio clips available for listening with topics ranging from Cajun life to Zydeco music. All of the audio tracks are interviews with people who are in a band or who live the particular lifestyle. There are also videos to watch that are companions to the audio tracks. See Mardi Gras celebrations, Houma Indian folk medicine, and various bands playing many types of music. This could be an invaluable tool for teachers now that Katrina has destroyed the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and possibly much of this culture too.

http://www.louisianafolklife.org/Resources/main_prog_streaming_video.html

EKU Media Solutions

This is Eastern Kentucky University’s media resource site. They record audio and video for the school that is used for distance learning courses. There is always a lecture series available to listen and watch, and the old lectures are archived for a while. The lecture topics range from politics, to biodiversity to life in the American South. There is also a link where you can access the school’s radio station and listen to college programming and NPR.

http://www.mediaresources.eku.edu/default.htm

Primary Sources Sites

17^th Century Colonial New England

There are 6 audio and visual aids here for a unit on 17^th Century New England. The creator puts an emphasis on the Essex County witch trials, so this is probably a site for older students. The audio includes a reading of the proceedings at the Salem witch trials, radio shows on the witch trials, and a lecture on women’s history. There is a lot of good history on the site too that is not audio or visual, but could be used to help plan a lesson.

http://www.17thc.us/index.php?id=21

American Rhetoric

This is a growing speech bank that contains 5000+ speeches given by Americans. Speeches are historical, such as Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”, and recent, such as Al Gore at the 2004 DNC Convention. There are links to the definitions of the elements of rhetoric, quizzes, communication journals, and commentary by Aristotle and Plato on what rhetoric is. This would be a great site to incorporate with a historical lesson so that students get an idea of what speeches might have sounded like.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/index.htm

Entertainment Streaming Audio

This is an entertainment site where there are many interviews. If you want to know anything about a film, this is probably the website for you. There are audio recordings of celebrity interviews, commentary on DVD’s, box office hits and scripts. You can get news on the latest films and those that will be opening soon. There are also links to articles that aren’t auditory or visual. These range from current news stories to Hollywood obituaries. This would be a good site for drama students.

http://www.einsiders.com/