At the moment, the News app shows items with empty body when you add a podcast feed. The student will have to fix this, by making the app show a small music player when the item of a feed is recognized to be coming from a podcast (same behaviour of Google Reader).

The HTML5 audio tag should be used in the implementation.

Prerequisites: not advanced PHP, html5, familiarity with RSS feed reader as user

If you are interested in this task, please get in touch with me in #owncloud-dev on Freenode, my nickname is zimba12.