Podcasting

=What is Podcasting?= = = A [|podcast] is an internet based broadcast (audio or video) that can be accessed via [|RSS] feed. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. What that means is that folks can subscribe to your podcast and it gets automatically downloaded each time you offer a new episode. How could you use this in the classroom? Imagine you are delivering a content heavy lecture. For example, in English class you might be introducing a new novel and you want to set up historical and social context before kids start reading. It's hard when kids who've missed that day come in and ask "what'd I miss?" Imagine if you could just tell them to listen to the podcast on your website. There are lots of ways people are using podcasting in education. Our laptops have [|Garage Band] on them. That's what we can use most easily to create a podcast. Once you have created the podcast, post it into [|Podbean]. That site will act as a host for your podcast so you can link to it from your website. If you don't know what I'm talking about, take some time to learn a bit more about podcasts and check out this guy, Tony Vincent.



[|Tony Vincent] This guy's doing some cool stuff with podcasting and handhelds in the classroom.

Here's a cool site that helps you find podcasts.[| Podcast.com] This site's a great search engine for podcasts. Like Google but for podcasts! [|Technorati]