Podcasting

July 12, 2007

In Richardson's book this week, I read that podcasting is the creation and distribution of amateur radio. The author said that in order to create a basic podcast, you need the following: a digital audio recorder that can create an MP3 file, some space on a server to host the file, a blog, and something to say. He said that teachers and students do not need to have iPods or MP3 players to create the audio files.

After reading the information in Richardson's book and reviewing the videos and captivate movies that my instructor created, I created my own podcast. First I recorded some thoughts in my sound recorder, saved the sound file and then converted the audio file into an MP3 file, uploaded it to TribalShout, and then created a widget of the podcast on our class wiki so that all members of the class could access the podcast.

Using podcasts in my computer applications class would be helpful, particularly when there may be some important instructions that go along with an assignment or simply when there is important information that is worth recording. If my podcasts are uploaded to a class wiki, my students would access the audio files.