Web 2.0 and social media
Social media: podcasts
“…all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio. But what to call it?
Audioblogging? Podcasting? GuerillaMedia?”
(Ben Hammersley, The Guardian, February 12, 2004)
Podcasting overview
Podcasting and education
- profcasting: Gardner Campbell, studentcasting
- Classic digital pedagogy: timeshifting, repeatability
- .edu forms: classroom recording, field notes, learning objects, studentcasting (Mary Washington; War News Radio)
- class content example: Computer Science E-1, Harvard
- podcast for admissions example: a sociology class at Bryant
- Public intellectuals: Out of the Past, Napoleon 101, In Our Time, Berkeley Science Groks, University Channel, The Missing Link
Birdnote (Seattle Audubon)
Searching for podcasts
Podcast hosting services
New approaches to recording
Notes on searching
- Lots of content
- keyword vs directory - tags play a role in subject identification
- directories - far more random
- iTunes - keyword search
- searching for most popular
- Google an already-known show's name, then download
- personal recommendations
Content of podcasts
- K-6 kids sounding pro
- street sounds
- political podcasts
- one or many voices
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