Friday, September 7, 2007

#21 Podcasts

Podcasts are a little ubiquitous now, with casts of SLV Digital Forums available for over a year now. Listening to AM Radio Nat and ABC, also FM RRR, podcasts feeds of interviews, program segments and naturally music.
Searching Yahoo podcast directory, there are 287 on the subject of web 2.0!
At this point in the program, I don't think I could venture there, so try a random selection of themes and topics.
Search options include episodes, series and search the web. Suggestions for alternative searches are given.
Nothing on dry stone walls, but I could listen to a Rolling Stone interview with John Lennon and 'walls' leads me to China and everything from travel casts to reports on political protests over Tibet.
The educational potential of podcasts and use in libraries I believe is wide.
An accompaniment to our exhibitions, as a learning tool for Lifelong Learning courses and bringing new life to perhaps our digitized collections.
The value of the use of podcasts in this program is questionable, as other bloggers discussed in our evaluation meeting this week.
I have only listened to the first podcast for this program and found it disappointingly patronising, so I have ignored the remainder, primarily to save time.

1 comment:

The Learning 2.0 Program said...

There are some great podcast on web 2.0, but as you mentioned you have to find them....keep up the good work. Almost there!