Podcast

Examples of Podcast in the following topics:

• Blogs, Podcasts, and Cyberspace

  • Blogs and podcasts are forms of media that exist within cyberspace and encourage interactions among people.
  • The term has become a conventional means to describe anything associated with the Internet and the diverse Internet culture, such as blogs, podcasts, or social media.
  • A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device.
  • Podcasting is both a converged medium bringing together audio, the web, and portable media players, and a disruptive technology that has caused some in the radio business to reconsider certain established practices and preconceptions about audiences, consumption, production, and distribution.
  • Compare and contrast blogs and podcasts as formats of new media

• The Internet, Blogging, and Podcasting

  • Podcasts, a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device, have also become a popular way to convey political messages.
  • Communication technologies such as e-mail, web sites, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster communications by citizen movements and deliver a message to a large audience.

• Defining Social Media

  • Podcasts: Podcasts are audio and video files available through subscription services such as Apple iTunes.
  • The term "podcast" is a neologism derived from "broadcast" and "pod" (as in "iPod"), since Podcasts are often listened to on portable media players.

• Tablets

  • By incorporating iPads in the classroom, teachers can customize their students' iPads with materials that are appropriate for various learning styles, levels, and speeds: podcasts, iBooks, iWork, and other multimedia apps, all offer a variety of approaches students can adopt for learning.
  • Examples of what a "course" on iTunes U app might include are: assignments, articles, syllabi, handouts, videos, pictures, and podcasts.

• Scenario

  • In order to learn as much as he can about the various places he "visits", Mario exchanges information with several individuals through teleconferencing and viewing web-streaming video.Mario's technology teacher offers a suggestion that Mario go to a website like LearnOutLoud.com to listen to various podcasts on historical, economic, social as well as current newscasts that may be significant to his travel destinations.He uses podcast information to determine in real time what situations or conditions he may encounter on his trip.For example, after listening to a podcast originating from Tunis, capital of Tunisia , (a country located in northern Africa) Mario hears a forecast warning of hurricane-like weather.He is forced to change his travel plans and moves his arrival closer inland to avoid the storm.This is one of several ways Mario is able to use technology to significantly impact an undertaking like a trip around the world.

• Defining Business Marketing

  • A significant portion of B2B brands also employ social media, including podcasts, social networking, and blogging sites, to drive web traffic to their online channels and draw prospective customers to their brand.

• Formal Communications

  • Examples include email, intranet, video and webcasts, DVD, electronic newsletters, podcasts, blogs, wikis, voicemail, conference calls, SMS text messaging, desktop alert messages, desktop news feeds, and internal social media tools (e.g., internal Twitter-style sites such as Yammer).

• Researching Using Digital Media

  • Social media analytics allow brands to efficiently collect and analyze qualitative research on user interaction with images, video, podcasts and other digital media.

• Advantages of Using Technology in the Classroom

  • Technologies such as podcasts and vodcasts, for instance, provide students with the opportunity to learn at their own pace and the freedom to go back and relearn content whenever they want.
  • The ability to access podcasts and vodcasts on classroom computers can help address these students' needs.

• MOOCs

  • MOOCs from private, non-profit institutions emphasized prominent faculty members and expanded existing distance learning offerings (such as podcasts) into free and open online courses.