Networked Learning/Podcasting

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Podcasting is the distribution of media files, such as audio and videos, over the Internet using a type of web feed. Listeners subscribe to the podcast's web feed for automated download to mobile devices and personal computers. The benefit of a podcast web feed over a standard web feed is that once the user subscribes the feed their podcast reader will automatically download any new media that is offered by the distributer.

Generating a podcast involves creating the media, usually an audio file using a free audio recorder and editor like Audacity, then uploading that file to a server such as the free and unlimited media storage space Our Media, announcing the file in a blog such as the popular and free Blogger, and enhancing that blog's web feed into a podcast using a free service such as Feedburner. To subscribe to a podcast and have media automatically downloaded to a portable device or personal computer you must use "podcatching" software such as the free MyPodder.

Uses for podcasting

Teachers record lectures and distribute the audio for listening to on portable digital audio players.
Students subscribe to a range of lectures they might otherwise not have been able to attend
Students record their own audio and make it available in a podcast for their peers and/or teacher's assessment
Students create a podcast for the subject they are studying

More information about Podcasting

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