“Voice of Literacy” Podcasts

I’d like to share a resource I recently found that archives podcasts related to literacy. On the Voice of Literacy site, Dr. Betsy Baker (Associate Professor of Literacy studies at the University of Missouri) posts bi-weekly podcasts of interviews of researchers as they discuss the implications of their literacy research.  Most podcasts range from 10 to 12 minutes long, and are archived back to 2008. I can’t believe I am just finding out about this resource!

All of the podcasts are related to literacy, but the topics vary. Here is a list of the podcasts from 2011 through 2014 that I recommend:

• Literacy Coaching: Contextual constraints and opportunities with Dr. Leslie Rush (posted 2/10/14)
• Internet literacy and middle school science: What are the obstacles? With Dr. Jamie Colwell (posted 11/4/13)
• Pay Attention! An examination of comprehension with Dr. Michael Kieffer (posted 10/23/13)
• Literacy coaching: Challenges and opportunities with Dr. Carolyn Hunt (posted 4/24/13)
• Text complexity and the early grades with Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer (posted 10/14/12)
• U.S. survey of middle school student attitudes toward reading with Dr. Mike McKenna (posted 9/17/12)
• How offline reading, online reading, and prior knowledge can help predict student abilities to understand what they read online with Dr. Julie Coiro (posted 12/19/11)
• Using children’s literacy skills to differentiate reading comprehension instruction with Dr. Carol Connor (posted 12/5/11)
• Using morphological analysis to infer word meanings with Dr. Deborah M Cutchen (posted 10/3/11)