Podcasting
This page provides links to a number of resources looking at podcasting and its use in education, training and generally.
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"Podcasting and File Sharing Widget - Free. Embed the Box.net widget into your blog or website and instantly share your podcasts, files, and other media with the world. It's a free and easy way to share with your audience".
Added: 9 February 2007
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Box.net is a US based virtual storage company.
"This site contains information on podcasting: what it is, how to use it in teaching and learning, samples and how to create and deliver podcasts."
Added: 11 June 2006
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From University of Wisconsin
"The purpose of this Guide is to provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting."
Added: 7 June 2006
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This Guide covers only US-based legal questions.
Academic MP3s - is it time yet?
"Are campus educators and administrators prepared to make full use of the iPod's educational potential? Our intrepid reporter gets the inside story from faculty, students, and administrators at three schools on the vanguard." Mikael Blaisdell, Campus Technology
Added: 8 March 2006
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A good look at the use of podcasting in higher education
"Download faculty lectures, interviews, music and sports. Play on your iPod, Mac or PC"
Added: 24 October 2005
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Stanford on iTunes will expand in content and features in the coming months. Soon users will be able to access descriptions of each track, listen to over 30 lectures from Reunion Homecoming 2005, and even watch video of select programs
7 things you should know about podcasting
"Podcasting" refers to any software and hardware combination that permits automatic downloading of audio files to an MP3 player for listening at the user's convenience. Part of the appeal of podcasting is the ease with which audio content can be created, distributed, and downloaded from the Web. Barriers to adoption and costs are minimal, and the tools to implement podcasts are simple and affordable. Podcasting allows education to become more portable than ever before, giving educators another way to meet today's students where they live and learn-on the Internet and on audio players." Educause, 2005
Added: 18 July 2005
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The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies. Each brief focuses on a single practice or technology and describes what it is, how it works, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning.
Beginners Guide to Podcast Creation
"Creating podcasts isn't simple, but it's not too hard, either. You'll need a small combination of hardware and software in order to create your own recordings, and in this iPod 101 tutorial Beginner's Guide to Podcast Creation, we'll walk through the different elements you need to create a simple podcast, from computer and microphone through to the finished product. " Kirk McElhearn, iLounge, 7 July 2005
Added: 12 July 2005
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Contents - First things first: Plan; Next Up: The Gear; Converting your Podcast and Publishing your Podcast.
Podcasting in academic and corporate learning
"You may have heard the term and wondered what it meant. Or you may already be listening to podcasts and pondering how they might be used with learners." Eva Kaplan-Leiserson, Learning Circuits, June 2005
Added: 25 June 2005
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This article will provide a basic explanation of podcasting, highlight some uses in learning, offer a Q+A from a corporate supplier, and then provide links to more information.
"The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century."
Added: 1 June 2005
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"The directory will grow as more people come forward with their stories and ideas, and we hope that you will start to share your ideas with the larger education community by producing your own program."
Podcast Search Engine and Directories List Of Lists
"Here is my comprehensive roundup of all sites that accept podcast submissions as of today." Robin Good, 20 May 2005
Added: 20 May 2005
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Starts with an explanation of podcasting and then provides an exhaustive list of podcast search engines and directories
Exploiting the educational potential of podcasting
"This article has been written for teachers and senior leadership teams in schools. It provides a brief overview of podcasting and how to create and listen to podcasts available on the Internet. The main section is devoted to exploring the potential of podcasting activities and scenarios for pupils and young people in schools, with reference to the National Curriculum for ICT. The use of podcasting as an alternative teaching approach and for personalised learning is also discussed. Consideration is given to issues of copyright and licences." Dave Jobbings, Russell Educational Consultancy and Productions, April 2005
Added: 16 May 2005
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A range of sources for further information about podcasting is also provided.
"The iPod's debut in college classrooms seems to be provoking an odd mix of euphoria and bafflement. There are many - faculty and students alike - who rave about the iPod's potential. But there are also a considerable number who scratch their heads and say that the excitement over use of the device in classrooms reminds them of the fable of the emperor's new (and nonexistent) clothes." Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 April 2005
Added: 20 April 2005
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A review of the iPod pilot at Duke University. "At Duke, the school's internal review of the success of the iPod's first foray into academics indicated mixed results."
"More than a music player, your iPod is a portable learning tool for dictation and sound recording, taking and reading notes, storing files and photos, and listening to audio books and newspapers." From Apple
Added: 18 April 2005
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Ideas, resources and case studies for using iPods in the classroom
"Podcasting and VODcasting, and their pending derivatives, are not fads. They are very real and very practical distribution technologies. The ability to time-shift content versus traditional broadcast distribution models expands student teaching and learning opportunities significantly. The supporting technologies are relatively inexpensive and surprisingly easy to use - in fact easy enough to use that faculty and students will begin to actively produce and distribute content through this medium by summer semester 2005." Peter Meng, University of Missouri, March 2005
Added: 14 April 2005
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Also includes a list of potential uses for Podcasting and VODcasting at the University of Missouri, but useful for any college or university.
"Pew Internet & American Life reports that more than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players and 29 percent of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing. That amounts to more than 6 million adults who have tried this new feature that allows Internet "broadcasts" to be downloaded onto their portable listening device." The Pew Charitable Trsuts, April 2005
Added: 7 April 2005
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Data memo is in PDF format
"The Podcast Network will be the best collection of podcasts available anywhere that are managed and aggregated under the one roof. "
Added: 14 February 2005
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Starting on the 14th of February 2005, we will be providing the podcast listening community with one central location from which to subscribe to the best content available. The "channels" (see sidebar) we provide will cover a variety of interests that people have both in their personal lives and their business lives.
"Call me a lemming, but once I understood what podcasting was, I jumped aboard as quickly as possible. Podcasting could be seen as just another way to push audio to people who want to listen to it, but it's really a unique combination of subscription and publication. My stumbling block? Turning interviews into podcasts using entirely digital production methods that would allow me to make phone calls and record directly to MP3 for simplicity. I worked it out, but not until I went through a lot of trial and error that I'll save you from." Glenn Fleishman, O'Reilly macdev.com 25 January 2005
Added: 27 January 2005
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For Macs, using Skype and other low cost tools
Podcasting: Hear what the buzz is about
"With podcasting, you can hear what anyone with a mic, a computer, and an Internet connection has to say. And you can listen in when you choose to rather than rearrange your day to accommodate someone else's programming schedule." Michael Gowan, playlist, 25 January 2005
Added: 26 January 2005
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A good overview of what podcasting is and how to get going
"This site is a comprehensive podcasting resource detailing everything you need to know about Podcasting."
Added: 20 January 2005
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Information and tools
"Podcasting is simply distributing audio content using RSS. The process is suprisingly simple, and by making audio content available using RSS, podcasters give listeners more control over what they listen to and when. Also, many podcasts are available for syndication, which increases a broadcasters exposure." FeedForAll
Added: 11 January 2005
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A step by step tutorial that explains how to setup a podcast. using FeedForAll
"Digital technology for iPod does for radio what blogs did for the Internet." The Christian Science Monitor, Stephen Humphries, 10 December 2004
Added: 11 December 2004
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A nice little overview of podcasting
"the best place to find all information relating to podcasts and podcasting. We are striving to develop the biggest and best directory of podcasts available on the internet. Podcasting is a great way for professionals and individuals alike to create audio news files (podcasts) that people can download to their iPods and listen to when they are away from their computers."
Added: 6 December 2004
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Why they are here: "In an effort to support the podcasting community, we are offering our services to index all the podcasts we can find."
How to podcast in three (relatively) easy steps
Added: 26 November 2004
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A quick overview of how to create a podcast
Edupodder.com Podcasting in Education
Added: 26 November 2004
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Weblog and Podcasts. Steve Sloan
What Is Podcasting and Why Should You Care?
"I've recently discovered a very intriguing new online media channel. The good news is that I think it holds considerable promise for creative, diverse, and useful audio programming that can serve a wide variety of audiences and purposes. The bad news is that it's saddled with a rather unfortunate name: podcasting." Amy Gahran, Contentious, 9 October 2004
Added: 26 November 2004
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Amy explains what podcasting is, how to use it, and why she think it's pretty important.
"Think how a desktop aggregator works. You subscribe to a set of feeds, and then can easily view the new stuff from all of the feeds together, or each feed separately. Podcasting works the same way, with one exception. Instead of reading the new content on a computer screen, you listen to the new content on an iPod or iPod-like device." Dave Winer, iPodder.org, 12 October 2004
Added: 26 November 2004
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iPodder is small program that runs on your computer. It's only purpose is to download audio files, usually mp3's, directly to your mp3 device. Currently iPod is supported on both Windows and Mac. iPodder.org is home to the community that develops iPodder applications and programming to subscribe to.
Podcasts: new twist on net audio
"For anyone who loves listening to the wide variety of internet audio programming, but can't always listen to their favorite shows when they're scheduled or take the time to download them manually, help has arrived. Known as podcasting, the technology is a new take on syndicated content feeds like RSS and Atom. But instead of pushing text from blogs and news sites to various content aggregators like FeedDemon and Bloglines, podcasting sends audio content directly to an iPod or other MP3 player." Daniel Terdiman, Wired News, 8 October 2004
Added: 26 November 2004
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A good overview of podcasting.
"a three part special complete with our first Engadget "Podcast" MP3. The first part is how to get "Podcasts" on your iPod," Engadget, 5 October 2004
Added: 26 November 2004
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A great tutorial on how to get started
Podcasting: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
Added: 26 November 2004
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Concise definition and links to podcasting resources
