Thing 22

Podcasts are just one more technological thing that I think would be useful and enjoyable to me, but I just can’t get into them.  I download them and they sit on my iPod unlistened to for months until I finally delete them.  I’ve recently become more interested in talk radio (NPR, etc.), especially to listen to in the car on the long rides to Kent, though, so maybe I’ll give podcasts another chance.

iTunes has always been my go-to location for finding podcasts.  It eliminates the extra step of loading the podcast into iTunes after I’ve downloaded it; also, you can subscribe to a podcast through iTunes, so it will continually download new ones for you.

Here are some of the podcasts I downloaded for (eventual) listening on my iPod:

The Quick and Dirty Tips Series – Get-It-Done Guy, Make-It-Green Girl, Modern Manners Guy
NPR’s Most Emailed Stories
New York Times Book Review
The Burlesque Podcast

That ought to keep me going for awhile.  I’m also interested in how podcasts are being used for educational purposes.  Obviously, you can download language learning or instructional podcasts, but I’ve seen them used quite a bit in my online courses at Kent.  I’m not sure what differentiates a “podcast” from a plain old mp3 recording in this case, but that is the term used to describe the downloadable lectures.