PODCAST & PODCASTING

Most people have probably heard of podcasting by now if only in relation to Apple’s ubiquitous iPod MP3 players that gave the technique its name. However you don’t need an iPod to listen to podcasts any more than you need a bona fide Hoover to hoover; and podcasting is about much more than the latest release from the Arctic Monkeys. Podcasting is simply a method of distributing audio files (of spoken word or music) over the Internet for playback on MP3 players and personal computers. Podcasting is now used routinely by BBC radio to timeshift programmes, and is beginning to be used in education Earlier this year the Economic and Social Science Research Council produced a series of podcasts called Social Science Voices where they describe the potential use of podcasting in education, research and marketing.

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