Podcasting
Podcasting is a series production of digital media files often audio but they can be video as well. Podcasting is an easy way to communicate ideas and messages reaching anyone with a broadband connection. There are minimal equipment necessities excluding the computer and this allows anyone the chance to transmit their ideas beyond conventional radio broadcasting. Podcasting gives people more control over what they listen to, when they listen, and freedom to access their Podcast choices because it is portable using a portable music player.
Podcasting was coined in 2004, combining iPod and broadcasting. Podcasting was coined by Guardian journalist, Ben Hammersley, and then popularized by media entrepreneur, Adam Curry. Curry along with software developer Dave Winer created an Applescript application to automate the process of downloading and syncing audio files to iPods. The automation application is not exclusive to iPods but can be utilized using any portable digital music player or computer.
You can listen to podcasts with nothing more than your browser, however use of software designed for receiving podcasts would deliver full benefits of Podcasting. To create a podcast show you will need a computer with sound capabilities, podcasting software, a fast Internet connection, and optional, a portable music player.
In an educational setting, Podcasting is used for a variety of purposes for communication to an audience in a classroom, in the school, in the community, and globally. Teachers can record classroom lessons and students can listen to lectures at times that are convenient for them. A podcast can be produced to present a schools profile or classrooms to the community, parents, students, and others globally with the achievements, activities, goals, projects, and strides of the students. With an individual or group assignment, students write subject matter script ideas, create, record, then edit until they’re content with the final recording and share with others the polished podcast. This process promotes learning organizational skills, self-critiquing, and collaboration with others resulting in a gratifying and conscientious podcast project. The constructivist theory and the proposed connectivist theory are both used in the teaching tool in the examples above.
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