Chapter 8: Podcasting and Screencasting

With the marketing of the ipod, it is amazing how it has all taken off. If you go into any electronics section of a store, you will see ipod inspired everything. Even items not even associated with ipods are named i-something. Podcasting reminds me of q-tips, it could be called audiocasting just like q-tips are cotton swabs, but the brand name stuck. Like RSS feeds, it seems like podcasting is becoming more popular everyday. The main idea I can see that holds educational value with podcasting is the fact that classes can be recorded and the podcast can be posted online for students that would like to hear the lecture again or if the student missed, they could listen to it. Screencasting is a new idea to me, in which audio can be added to computer video. This could be used for some good things as well as with podcasting.