Podcasting

The article I read this week was on podcasting. The term podcasting is dervied from the apple ipod and is related to ipods and mp3 players however they are not essential to it. Podcasting is a new type of online media delivery. It allows you to create your own online talk show or radio program. According to the article that I read, there are five steps to podcasting. The first step is to record your material, second you have to edit the podcast, third you have to compress the file, fourth you have to tag and package the file, and your fifth and last step is to publish and syndicate your podcast. After all of these steps your result is your own personal radio talk show that you may broadcast over the internet. Podcasting is a great tool for doing interviews. Some tools needed to create a podcast are; a laptop, microphone, portable recorder, and a headset. The article also mentioned that podcasting is completely free to do. I definatly found the article very interesting because until now I really didn't know anything about podcasts. I figured that the had something to do with the apple ipod but I didnt know exactly what and how much they were related to it. I think that it would be very interesting to create my own podcast and I would definatly consider using podcasting someday in my teaching career.
I think that podcasting would be a very useful tool for both educators and learners. Podcasting is very affordable for educators seeming that its free. I think that it would be useful for teachers in that they could create some type of a radio show for their students to listen to as part of an assignment. This could create yet another interesting and new way for students to learn. I think that this form of technology would be useful for students in that it would keep them interested in a new way of learning and also it would allow them to create their own radio show and do either an interview or and informational talk show as an assignment.
I found the article very informative and I really wouldnt change anything about it. It covered in depth all of the steps to creating a podcast as well as all of the materials used in podcasting. All in all, it was a very informative article.

Link to article: http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/07/20/WhatIsPodcasting.html