Students already use podcasts to review lectures, listen to audio materials and share their own reports, field notes and music compositions. It’s part of a trend in higher education toward delivering class materials that are more timely, customized and engaging.
Lynne O’Brien, director of Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology

Educators involved in eLearning are rediscovering the power of the spoken word by utilizing new technologies to communicate with students outside the traditional classroom. Podcasting is a new medium that enables you to easily incorporate on-demand audio recordings into your curriculum.
University of Wisconsin podcasting website

A great podcast, like an engaging web site, can increase class attendance by sparking student interest to lean more about the subject matter.
Michael Rappa, North Carolina State University

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, more than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players, and 29 percent of them have downloaded podcasts.

This is a societal change, a change in the way people relate and communicate with each other and that, dear professor, is very much about pedagogy!
Steve Sloan, Information Technology Consultant, San Jose State University

To listen to the most recent podcast, select the play button below. If a podcast you want to listen to is not visible on the Gcast player, click the Posts button and select the desired podcast from the list.

You may also add our podcast to your podcatcher of choice by selecting the "Get Podcast" button or by clicking on the orange RSS feed icon.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Podcast 2: Why should I care about podcasting?

The second podcast in our Hear2Cast podcast series addresses the question "Why should I care about podcasting?" It introduces the reasons that podcasting is important in the business and educational world and also describes its importance to technical communicators. To listen to this podcast, click the Posts button on the Gcast player and select Podcast 2 from the list. You can also download this podcast (3.9 MB). (Right-click on the link and select "Save Target As...")

Show Notes

The following music, from PodSafe Audio has been used in this podcast: Two Violins - Telemann Duet in Bb - Allegro

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