Quasi-Flipping the class

I have always wanted to find a way to help parents reinforce their child's learning.  I thought creating a block of "How-To" videos and sending links to parents for access, but I always worried about keeping parents up to date.  When I designed our school web page, I added a section for "Parent Help".  Here you would find specific links for help in subject areas that lead to teacher created resources from our school.  After all my work, the district switched to a canned website and out of frustration for my time, I gave up.

Recently, I started looking into podcasts. They are easily acquired and update on their own.  So, I dove right in.  I got students to give a weekly update on things we are doing and recorded their prepared speeches.  Then I created a "How-To" video on a topic we are learning.  Then I sent my podcast to iTunes.  Within a day or two it was up and running.  Now I plan on continuing the helpful videos and publicizing them to the parents.  My hope is it catches on and I no longer will need newsletters or to have extensive phone calls and emails discussing how we are currently teaching multiplication and other things of that nature.

Below you will find links to the resources I  am using to accomplish this and a link to the feed:

Posomatic is the site I used to create the feed, it's free

https://www.podomatic.com/login

The link to iTunes

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mr-walls-podcast/id955931710

The XML feed

http://andrew-wall.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

Since I don't have an Android device, feel free to post a good Podcast app in the comments!