What is Podcasting?
The following definition came from Wikipedia (2010)
A podcast (or netcast) is a series of digital audio files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication. The term "podcasting" was first mentioned by Ben Hammersley in The Guardian newspaper in a February 2004 article, along with other proposed names for the new medium. It is a portmanteau of the words "pod"—derived from iPod, a brand of portable media player produced by Apple Computer (now Apple),—and "broadcasting".
Video explaining Podcasting
Defining the term Podcasting further:
http://www.podcasting-tools.com/what-is-podcasting.htm
http://www.oid.ucla.edu/units/tlc/tectutorials/casting/whatispodcasting01
Why use Podcasting?
In the education field there are student and teacher created podcasts.
Creating a podcast allows students to share learning experiences. It provides them with a world-wide audience that makes learning meaningful and assessment authentic. For those English Learners in the classroom Podcasting helps reinforce the English language because students must create a script, read, record their script/voice.
Teachers can use the technology to provide additional and revision material to students to download and review at a time that suits them. The flexibility that such time-shifting offers makes podcasting a valuable educational tool.
This video demonstrates multiple methods of incorporating
Podcasting and students creating a podcast.
There are four "P"s in a pod. (Podcasting, that is.)
The following link explains more about successful podcasting.
http://www.devia.be/news/article/from-idea-to-a-successful-podcast/
Student Examples:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mills-murfee-podcasts/id81084957
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/2nd-grade-goobers/id120896787
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-school-in-the-coulee-podcast/id79169064
Teachers can use the technology to provide additional and revision material to students to download and review at a time that suits them. The flexibility that such time-shifting offers makes podcasting a valuable educational tool. Teachers can create summaries of material taught in the classroom for students to download at home and use as a study guide for an upcoming test. Teachers can create a podcast on the weeks vocabulary words for a small listening center in the classroom as a study aid.
Teacher Examples:
http://www.grandviewlibrary.org/StoryTelling.aspx
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/Tags/Grammar/page/1/sortbyalpha
Articles on the benefits of Podcasting in the classroom
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/edupodcast/
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Podcasts
http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/
References:
Coulee Kids. (n.d.). . Retrieved from http://wiki.lacrosseschools.org/groups/couleekids
Grammar Girl : Grammar :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™. (n.d.). . Retrieved from http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/Tags/Grammar/page/1/sortbyalpha
Grandview Library. (n.d.). . Retrieved from http://grandviewlibrary.wordpress.com/
Podcasting 101 for K–12 Librarians. (n.d.). . Retrieved from http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/apr06/Eash.shtm
OpenURL Gateway. (n.d.). . Retrieved from http://worldcatlibraries.org/registry/gateway?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article
Lesage, S. (2009). From Idea to a Successful Podcast. Retrieved from http://www.devia.be/news/article/from-idea-to-a-successful-podcast/