Thursday, October 6, 2011

Podcast

Do you think podcast help students to learn? I hope so. Auditory learners will welcome to hear some podcast and discuss them. My favorite tool for selecting podcast for my classes is Itunes U. but what is a podcast anyway? Podcasting is an audio content delivery approach based on Web syndication protocols such as RSS and/or Atom. Cebeci (2006) defines podcast in a formula
Podcasting = Web syndication (RSS, Atom) + Audio content (talk shows, music, news, and certainly
learning resources…) + Mobile devices (mp3 players, PDAs, cell phones…). In education,
podcasting serves anytime and anywhere mobile learning. After podcasts are downloaded
into any mobile player, they can be listened to at one’s convenience. The flexibility of merely
listening is a technological advantage of podcasting that may make mobile learning applicable,
cheaper, and popular when it is compared to its counterparts such as WAP-based or Web-based
mobile learning.
Other website that you can download your podcast is http://www.learnoutloud.com/
where you can buy some of them or acquired them free.