Thing 20

I used EPN to locate the Genocide Prevention Network to which I subscribed. This year we are hosing Immacule Ilibagiza, a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide. She will be addressing our faculty and students in early February during Catholic Schools Week. I expect tp use this podcast to help our community prepare for her visit by becoming better versed in the political and economic factors at stake in the Darfur tragedy. Most of our students will be able to subscribe to the podcast on their iPhones and to play episodes in the car on the way to school or to a game (two out of every three of our students are athletes).
I used Podcast Alley to locate World Vision Report with Peggy Wehmeyer whom I respect greatly for her clear and candid way of reporting on religion. For our students at a Catholic school, a podcast such as this is invaluable. The Genocide Prevention Network podcast will give them a sense of the scope of the evil that men can do. The World Vision Report will affirm the power of Gospel inspired concerted collective social action.
I preferred EPN to Podcast Alley because I had to sift through three pages of News and Politics podcasts to locate World Vision Report (which I recognized because I was familiar with World Vision. The details section did not make clear the context for these gripping reports from the developing world) . I preferred Bloglines as my aggregator to iTunes because it made sense to keep track of the new episodes as part of a news folder where I get my Reuters feeds.