How I could use podcast in my teaching?

I personally enjoyed Absolutely Intercultural podcast. I listened and watched several ones from here, and liked absolutely intercultural 132 episode a lot.
While learning abroad right now, I've thought that language learning is really related with culture of that language. Without knowing the culture, there are lots of chances that I misuse the language. So, I wondered how I could teach my future students language as well as culture. This episode gave me a hint. In addtion, this episode introduced many interesting features like translating animal sound or learning language using games.
I want to let my students hear this episode first and share their thoughts or reflections about this episode. I think many students can get a glimpse of importance of cultural understanding while hearing this episode. After my students realize the necessity of cultural background, then I can give them some assignments as a group to search the cultural differences between Asian countries and English-speaking countries and make the result as a podcast like this episode. Of couse my students' podcast can be about 5~7 minutes and not as long as 20 minutes like this one.
I think I can use this podcast site as a source of developing intercultural knowledge of my students, whenever I find good ones from here.

ePaLs

While I am searching ePals, I can find lots of great features that I can use in my future classroom.
Among them, I like the Projects and Collaborate the best.
In Projects, I can see lots of lesson plans that can actually apply to the class teaching. In each project, you can see the topic, essential questions, overview, and community. The scope of topics are really broad. It can be culture, literacy, global warming, people, nature, and etc. I enjoyed a lot to see lots of great ideas that can be used in my future classroom. In addition, I can connect with the other classrooms if I want a kind of collaborated project. I think this idea is really great. I've experienced the traditional concept of penpal and it remained a great memory to me. That time we exchanged letters, so I needed to wait for a while until I received the response from my penpal. However, using ePals students can get connected right away with students around the world.
If I give my students the project topic like comparing how different and similar each country's festival especially Thanksgiving, then students can decide how many countries they will compare according to their own decision or interest. And based on their decision, I can help students to be connected with other classes in those countries that my students are interested such as America, Germany, Japan, China, Sudan, and ect. It can be as many classrooms as they want. Then they can share thoughts and ask questions that they want to know. My students can make a list of questions they will ask, and I think using ePals, communicating with real people around the world, my students can get more detailed information or have more visualized concept about this festival. Students can learn about how to celebrate Thanksgiving in each country by reading books, megazines, or searching internet documents, but if they can ask students that actually celebrate this festival every year in that country, then they can get more correct information. Sometimes books or internet documents can not apply the recent changes, but hearing from people in current time can give the most precious information. Or they can even know that in same country there can be some differences like how or what to celebrate according to the region. I think in this case the best way to know this concrete differences is hearing from the people living in that area.
I think that there are so many ways I can use this Projects and Collaborate features in my teaching. Especially for students learning English as a foreign language, they can practice their English by sharing information and communicating with other English speaking or learning students. They can also learn how different culture each country has and how similar concerns they have right now. Using ePals can be a great way to learn languages as well as cultures.

  

Tools that use FLICKR photos

The states I've visited!

http://bighugelabs.com/map.php

I searched Big Huge Labs and especially liked maps among many tools.
I can use Map Maker while I teach L2 learners English.
The lesson plans can be numerous. I can teach geography using map. Students can visualize the location of each state while learning the name of each state. Maybe I can start my lesson by asking several questions to students like: Do you know how many states are in U.S.A., names of all states, correct pronunciation of states, each state's characteristics, etc. I can let students write an essay relating travel: Where is your favorite place in U.S.A.? Where have you traveled in America? Where do you want to visit if you can? etc. Further, we can discuss the cultural differances between our own country and America. Later, we can expand our interest to the whole world and learn more.
To check the understanding of student's geographic knowledge, I can make a puzzle using this map. By trying to match the puzzle, they can have fun and check their knowlege.
According to the level of learners, I can create different kinds of lesson plans using map.

The various types of creative commons licensing.

While using internet, I have enjoyed lots of great pictures taken all around the world. Through this Module, I can know there exist various types of licenses which protect the copyright of those pictures.
Here, I would like to describe the various types of creative commoms licensing, I can get this information from About The Licenses internet site.

First of all, the role of creative commons licese is like this:
This tools' purpose is to grant copyright permissions to creative work done by from individual creators to large companies and instituions in a simple and standardized way.

*Licenses

1. Attribution CC BY
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

2. Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.

3. Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

4. Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

5. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

6. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND
This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.