Podcasting: Revolutionary

In the article "Podcasting in the Classroom" by Brian Flanagan, he presents the different uses of podcasting in the realm of academia. He also goes on to explain the new technology that has pushed podcasting to a new level. He even advocates the use of ipods in schools.


One might wonder how ipods can be allowed in schools. The answer is simple. Podcasts. With podcasts, teachers are able to stream media daily, both auditory and visual, to their classes


Flanagan says that at some institutions use podcasting for academic reasons. Their use falls into five categories:

1. Course content dissemination
2. Classroom recording
3. Field recording
4. Study support
5. File storage and transfer

He continues to describe the variety of benefits of podcasting. The one benefit that stood out most to me was the use of podcasting to create soundseeing tours. Soundseeing tours are are combination of sounds and visuals used to disseminate information.

Apple has released "enhanced podcasts" which allow users to create podcasts with audio and visuals. The combination of both auditory and visual resources will be available to audiences on their ipods. Like a complex powerpoint. 

With this revolutionary technology we may soon see a day where online classes are no longer taught and put onto computers, but rather streamed to ipods, ipads, itouches, iphones, or whatever assessable technological devices are created in the near future.

Here is a video on how to create a podcast from various Apple products: