Podcast!!

A podcast is a media file which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers.[1] Like 'radio', it can mean both the content and the method of syndication. The latter may also be termed podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster. The term "podcast" is a portmanteau of the name of Apple's portable music player, the iPod, and broadcast; a pod refers to a container of some sort and the idea of broadcasting to a container or pod correctly describes the process of pod casting. More about the name itself can be found in the History of podcasting article.

Comment: Podcast is a new and different idea for me, while i have an ipod i have never taken advantage of the Pod casting phenomenon. In researching podcasting i hjave learnt you must first download a podcast to your computer and then place it onto a Ipod.

However we must research how this must take part in education and how it can help.

Education & Academia
Podcasts enable students and teachers to share information with anyone anytime. If a student is absent, she can download the podcast of the recorded lesson. It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to communicate curriculum, assignments and other information with parents and the community. Teachers can record book talks, vocabulary or foreign language lessons, international pen pal letters (podcast pals!), music performance, interviews, debates. Podcasting can be a publishing tool for student oral presentations. Video podcasts can be used in all these ways as well. (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_of_podcasting)