Podcasting is an online audio content that is sent through a RSS feed. RSS also known as “Really Simple Syndication” is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated work like podcasting, blog entries, and news headlines. RSS usually benefits readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from a user favorite website. Podcasting gives you more options in terms of content and programming than radio. Listeners can decide the time, place and programming, they would like to receive. Podcasting has about five different ways it can be used. The first is for a self guided walking tour, which is an informational content. The second is for music like the band promotional clips and interviews. Third is for talk shows like industry or organizational news, investor news, sportscasts, news coverage, and commentaries. Forth is for training, which can be instructional informational materials. The last use of a podcasting can be for story telling for children or the visually impaired. Teachers all over are starting to like and use podcasting in classrooms with their students. Teachers say that they are drawn to this technology, this is what excites them, and they are comfortable with it. Teachers that believe that this is an effective tool for their student think what excites a student will help a student remember and learn better as well. I think this would be part of the connectivists theory because the student learns and works online with a network environment, which I think helps the student better.
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Washington post.com
Surfnetkids.com/photo_sharing
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