More research has revealed that there are some content worthy podcasts that could be useful in an elementary classroom. The Williamsburg site, which I have gone to for other types of information, does have a number of podcasts, both audio and video that explain aspects of Colonial life. I listened to one about spies during the Revolution and another about the role of women during Revolutionary times.
http://www.history.org/media/podcasts.cfm is a website that has primary source documents and advice for using them in the classroom. This would also be useful in my classroom.
Since my students are young, I would see us viewing podcasts in the computer lab or the classroom and possibly linking to them in my classroom blog. Links could be added to our wiki page as well and these could then be automatically updated. I have a number of special needs students for whom reading the text is difficult, so any podcast that I could find that would duplicate the material from the text would be very helpful to them.
I suppose, if I were to get a microphone, we could podcast students reading or explaining the text on the wiki or blog. Supplementing the reading with slides and graphics would also help those whose learning style does not conform to the standard, "read the text". This would be a project, valuable to at least my students, that could be done partially by students.
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