Richard Smith-"A podcast is an audio recording that is saved as an MP3 file and made available on the Internet through RSS." (Jonassen Marra p. 160) Pod casting in the classroom will be great for schools, no matter the income, for instance: A teacher can make a series of recordings of him or herself teaching the lecture in case the teacher knows that they are going to be gone for a couple of weeks, so the class doesnt miss out on anything.
Podcasting is alike in some of the previous web apps weve been researching about in the fact that some are downloadable, can be shared from device to device, it is different in the fact that podcasting cannot be spread throughout the internet, it is only meant to be shared to one or few individuals at a time instead of being public information easily heard or viewed via you tube.
I own an ipod and an iphone, i love both of them and would and could use them for anything, i have used my iphone to record a teachers lecture and it helped me learn. I would also allow my students to do that to me, i could also teach a few lectures for students to watch in case i cant be there for some reason which will be a great tool, online communication tools are becoming increasingly important for class room use but at the same time the tools need to be for the good and not the evil.
References:
Meaningful Learning with Technology, 2008. Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R. M., and Crismond, D.
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