Thing #22 of “23 Things”

Podcasts: No iPod Needed!

Ok, now I get it, a podcast is any audio or video content delivered over the internet in a program or episode fashion. It is like radio or TV over the internet and not in real time. It is just an mp3 file. It turns out I’ve been subscribed to podcasts for a while now unknowingly. I watch House and Dexter over the internet. When a new episode becomes available a “new episode” flag shows on top of the picture of Dexter or House and I can watch it anytime I want and as many times as I want because I own the episode. Amazon’s shows and movies podcasting are not free and therefore they are not just MP3 files that I can move from media to media, but the idea is the same.

So obviously podcasting, like everything else, is evolving. When I searched the internet for podcasts of interest I immediately found several. Interestingly I could not find a way to add the RSS to my website… they do it differently, they add the RSS to your browser‘s taskbar and automatically download the mp3 directly to your computer so that you could listen to the podcast, in this case an audio recording of an interview, offline.

I decided not to subscribe to this podcast because once subscribed, the website would download to my computer not only the interview that I was interested in, but also all the previous podcasts or episodes.

Here is the podcast I was interested in: Twenty-two minute podcast Interview with V.S. Ramachandran, Professor and Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition in La Jolla, California. You can click on this link or go to Educause Website to see (or listen) all their podcasts.

Learn Out Loud requires a paid subscription of $12 and up and it is more like a website where you can buy audio books or listen to those included in the subscription without paying an additional fee. The other three are actually podcast searching/holding tools. I liked Podcast alley better. I did a search there and found another podcast that I am interested in and perhaps other students and teachers may also be interested in. It is called Teachers Teaching Teachers or TTT. I subscribed to this one and added the RSS to the end of my blog page.

I don’t plan to make any podcast for now for my students but I definitely would like to eventually create some explaining math concepts, to use as a teaching aid or when I am absent. Ideally I would like to make my own collection of mp3/mp4 podcasts or audio/video clips or tutorials created by me or by others. Only time will tell.

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