If you’ve been a reader for a while you’ve probably heard me banging on about how podcasting can save an enormous amount of money and drastically improve the quality of online audio for teaching and learning online…. well, here’s the most recent version which concludes my blogsavvy week of podcasts.
Should be called your professional podcast consultant perhaps :o) Am probably going to be something of that next week at The Radio Conference 2005!
Our library recently digitally recorded a meeting made up of very geographically diverse people, many of whom participate via videoconference (expensive). It was saved to MP3 and made available as “recorded minutes”.
Presto! - meeting podcasted!
The Library now gets to skite about being cutting-edge :). And apparently people were listening to the meeting whilst cataloguing, or shelving, or suchlike. Which is cool (if somewhat library-geeky).
How many were listening through an iPod or other such device I’m not precisely sure, however. If it’s merely an MP3 file played through one’s computer, is it a “podcast”?
Good question… worth a post of it’s own I reckon, watch this space!
It is still called a podcast, regardless of what you listen to it on. The “pod” part of podcast is there simply due to the popularity of Apple’s iPod, but it really has nothing to do with the iPod (except of course that you can use an iPod to listen to the podcast). :-)
Check out the wikipedia entry for podcasting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
Um, I was thinking more in philosophical terms… y’know when is a man a man type stuff.