Mighty Mommy, Legal Lad, and Mr. Manners: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/
I found this podcast a bit lacking on a few things. I have been a listener of many tech podcasts so maybe I am being a bit too critical. However, I found that having the advertisements take up 1/3 of a 3-5 minute podcast a little annoying. I also felt that the reading from a script turned me off a bit. I'm not saying that a podcaster shouldn't have some notes but I felt very disconnected from these podcasters. I felt that anyone could have read what was written and done just as well. I would tend to listen to a podcast from someone that I felt was an expert on a subject. If you are an expert, you shouldn't really need to read word-for-word to complete a 2-3 minute podcast. I also felt that the information presented wasn't anything that EVERYONE already knows. Very basic information in the podcasts I listened to. I would not subscribe to these podcasts. The big positive is that the audio was done well. It sounded very professional.
I found this podcast a bit lacking on a few things. I have been a listener of many tech podcasts so maybe I am being a bit too critical. However, I found that having the advertisements take up 1/3 of a 3-5 minute podcast a little annoying. I also felt that the reading from a script turned me off a bit. I'm not saying that a podcaster shouldn't have some notes but I felt very disconnected from these podcasters. I felt that anyone could have read what was written and done just as well. I would tend to listen to a podcast from someone that I felt was an expert on a subject. If you are an expert, you shouldn't really need to read word-for-word to complete a 2-3 minute podcast. I also felt that the information presented wasn't anything that EVERYONE already knows. Very basic information in the podcasts I listened to. I would not subscribe to these podcasts. The big positive is that the audio was done well. It sounded very professional.
Stanford University: http://itunes.stanford.edu/
I enjoyed this podcast as I felt as though I was sitting in on a lecture at school. I felt that I was involved in the 1 hour+ conversation. It was technical, so it is obviously for a specific audience but easily understood for almost anyone to enjoy. From this podcast, I actually learned a great deal and would definately subscribe to this podcast. There were many topics to choose from. I can see listening to this podcast on a long car ride! Hey, Stanford classes/lectures for free?? Who can beat that.
I enjoyed this podcast as I felt as though I was sitting in on a lecture at school. I felt that I was involved in the 1 hour+ conversation. It was technical, so it is obviously for a specific audience but easily understood for almost anyone to enjoy. From this podcast, I actually learned a great deal and would definately subscribe to this podcast. There were many topics to choose from. I can see listening to this podcast on a long car ride! Hey, Stanford classes/lectures for free?? Who can beat that.
A news broadcast about media on the PBS podcast site: http://www.podcastingnews.com/details/www.onthemedia.org/index.xml/view.htm
This particular link did not work for me so I went into the PBS podcast site and selected a news media related podcast. The one I listened to was about public radio and television and how it should move forward in the podcast age. It was very interesting to listen to and was very professionally created. It sounds just like the radio but I was able to select exactly which topic I wanted to listen to and when I wanted to listen. This podcast was created for a general audience and absolutley everyone could take something away from it. It's all about news, so who wouldn't find something of interest. I really had no trouble with this podcast at all. The only thing I would tell PBS is to try and advertise this podcast a bit more. I really had no idea they had a podcast and have never seen it on PBS, and with a 3 year old, we wathc it often.
I searched iTunes for the word "zoo". There aren't a lot of zoos doing podcasts, which surprised me. It seems that there is so much information that a zoo could share and would want their visitors to know about. Many zoos do conservation work and research that the typical visitor would never know about. They just think that these poor animals are locked away in cages, but little do they know that the animals they are looking at are producing offspring that are being released into the wild. With this podcast, the listener can understand some of the in-situ and ex-situ conservation work being done, they can meet a zookeeper and learn about the animals....all in the same podcast. I really enjoyed it. I would have liked it to be a video podcast, however. I like to have the option to either watch and listen or just listen, but I do tend to gravitate toward the vidoe podcasts.
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ReplyDeleteThe Virgina Minutes link didn't work. I'll try to search for it in a bit and comment on it later.
These are attached to a school website. I have an example of one of them that you can hear. It is labeled Jim Crow laws, but it is clearly about West Virginia becoming a state :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a link to a page we use to get our students to practice creating podcasts. We originally did this project with a school superintendent and others from the central office of a very small school division. It took them 6 hours just to get their minute podcast done! But they did get the idea of the value podcasts have in the classroom.
http://mason.gmu.edu/~pnorton/KG.htm
I see a great value in work for video podcasts. In your world it is really important to be accessible to as many people as possible or at least to design with that in mind. The cool thing about video podcasts is that it brings the best of digital video editing and podcasting together. For learners, that means a whole lot of thinking skills promoted in the production of these projects.
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