Communicating Culture:
Seven Things You Should Know About Podcasting
1. What is it?
"Podcasting" is a term derived from the Apple iPod digital audio player. The term refers to any software or hardware which permits automatic downloading of audio files for listening at the users convenience.
2. Who is doing it?
Anyone and everyone. The benefits of this medium of information delivery were recognized most immediately by professional broadcasters, amateurs, and university professors. Programming, lectures, and virtually anything else that one can listen to can be shared online this way.
3. How does it work?
The user connects his or her audio device to the computer, the user logs onto a podcasting subscription service, then subscribes to that site's feeds. It is incredibly simple and user-friendly.
4. Why is it significant?
Podcasting allows education to become more mobile and portable than ever before. Barriers and adoption costs are minimal, and the tools to implement podcasts are simple and affordable.
5. What are the downsides of podcasting?
Quality, formatting, and sufficient bandwith to download are the issues that come with podcasting.
6. Where is this going?
There is no limit to the potential uses of this technology, particularly in education. New features such as categorizing, navigating, and indexing are on the horizon and designers and producers of podcasters are looking for new ways to enrich the quality of the podcast as an audio experience.
7. What are the implications for teaching and learning?
Podcasting allows students to us their technology-based entertainment systems - their iPods and MP3 players - for educational purposes, and teachers can deliver information in a new way. Missed lectures, extra content, expert interviews, and music can all be made available to students in a way that is easily accessible to everyone.
This is a summary of a more detailed article published online by the Educause Learning Initiative.
The more people know about podcasting, the sooner we can put this technology to work in an educational and cultural context for Ukrainian Canadian studies. Dr. Hlynka and I will be experimenting with podcasts later in the Summer.
The following sites are just a small sample of what is available for listening right now.
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