“What to us is technology, to our students is just another domestic appliance…!” Brad Niesson
Last Christmas my wife bought me an MP3 player. It seems that after 12 years she’s finally realized that I like toys for Christmas! I happily filled my CREATIVE ZEN™ with pictures and music and off I went wired up and happily oblivious to all around me.
A month ago I bought a new laptop and was given an iPod Nano™. Ah, well … now I have two MP3 players. I placed some music in it and once more went merrily on my way. However, I discovered something else that comes with the iPod … iTunes! I knew you could download music from iTunes, and I knew that you didn’t need an iPod to have iTunes on your computer, but I just didn’t fancy the idea of buying songs. And then I discovered the free stuff … PODCASTS!
It was a colleague who introduced me to PODCASTING. She downloads free MP3 files from the internet and has started giving them to her students to listen to.
And this is where my unexpected journey began.
Let me say at this point: I am not telling you to go out and buy an iPod! (I would if APPLE paid me to!) You DO NOT need an iPod to download or listen to podcasts. You just need a computer which is connected to the internet. If you already have an iPod, fine. If you have a different MP3 player, that’s fine, too.
What is a PODCAST?
- POD from the word iPOD
- CAST from the word broadcast.
- The TechTeacher - http://thetechteacher.libsyn.com
- The Podcast Academy http://pa.gigavox.com/series/podcastacademy.html
This article was written for the APPI Journal, Autumn 2006. The complete article is avaiable in the magazine - all members of APPI receive the magazine The APPI Journal.
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