We have to start recognizing what's a story (for radio) and what's not. ... Just because something's a story, or takes the form of a story, doesn't mean it's an interesting story.  And so the second thing I try to tell my students is, don't choose a story just because it sounds like a story you've heard before.  In fact, just the opposite. Choose a story because it's surprising.

                                                            - Alex Blumberg on Writing for Radio

What are podcasts and radio writing?

• What are podcasts?  resources and examples from Red Cedar Writing Project
• Video Podcasting -- (see also Video Composition  &  Digital Storytelling Resources)
• Urban Youth Poets YouTube Channel -- TPT Podcast "Urban Youth Poets: Quest for Voice"
• Academic podcasting --  resources for getting started (from CWCon2015) -- examples
  
• What is auditory literacy? and rhetorical sonic studies
  

professional examples for classroom listening:

• Sound Portraits (see especially Ghetto Life 101 and "Blak's story")
• Radio Diaries (see "Josh's Diaries" and  "Juan's Diaries")
  
• Radio Rookies (see "The ABCs of Chinese Americans" and ...)
• Youth Radio (see "Girls Flip the Script on Social Media"  and "Trafficked"
  
• StoryCorps oral history project (see "I draw my strength from you" and ...)
  
• Precious Lives (see ... and ...)
  
• Radio Ambulante: Spanish radio stories revealing the untold stories of the Americas 
• The Moth RadioHour
• Teaching Tolerance - (see The Day I Swam Into a New World - Narrative describing young AA girl's dive into segregated community pool. Hosted at Teaching Tolerance
  

student-made examples -

• elementary level radio - 
• secondary level radio -

Resources for Teaching Radio Writing

• Teaching Youth Radio - (from Youth Radio)
• DIY Radio Writing Tool Kit - (from Radio Rookies)
• Transom.com - see especially XY method for story writing by Alex Blumberg -
  
• Audio Resources -- curated by Digital Media Scholar
  
• Introductory description of podcasting software options -Upstate Writing Project

Technology Tools and Tutorials

• Pod-o-matic -- instant publishing podcast software 

• Audacity -- free software for editing & compressing mp3 files

• Audacity Tutorials  -- compliments of Mr. Sloan (teacher at Catholic Memorial)

• Audacity Tutotials (KQED) -- series of 5 tutorials, put together by KQED in California
  

• LAME Encoder that turns sound file into mp3

• Garage Band -- Mac software for editing & compressing mp3 files

• SoundCloud for sound file sharing