Podcast_Blog: Reading Reflection week #5

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Reading Reflection_ Week #5

“Podcasting is the start of a new media content revolution that is empowering individuals with the ability to globally distribute their ideas and create a following of like minded fans. It is impacting traditional industries such as journalism, education and entertainment allowing anyone to freely create and distribute news and media.” (Starak, 2005)

Podcasting seems to taken the media world. The author clearly focused on the different ways this form of media has been used. He address how in the next couple of years, the idea of podcasting is going to empower the globe, giving those that are interested the ability to engage, share their ideas, and communicated effective through the power on the internet.

Personally, I have never own or use an ipod and never know the capacity of its built. From all the talks and podcasting availabilities, as in my job, working with young minds, one thing I do see, educationally, is how showing students that their work can be validated by giving them an audience. Could you imagine how exciting, anxious and real learning would become for these students?

Podcasting can gear towards those students that falls in certain circumstances such as being bulled at school and not wanting to attend or the classes at school due to drastic illness as a means up catching up with work and submit it w/out actually going to the school. In a professional setting, podcast offer ways of communication and discussion amongst expertise. It provides commentary on a latest trends and interest in related application to the topic being discussed. Without having to actually be at the location, and could still attend the podcast of the round table commentary. For example, applications relating to GIS and Spatial Information Management Industry are good idea because many industries are now becoming familiar with what Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is about and its capabilities. Having a podcast in which folks can document their attendance to a GIS related function they attend for community services, because it’s required for society is an excellent way of podcasting.

Among the easiest ways to publish work is through the Internet. On the Web, everyone who cares to be an author, creator, and publisher can author, create, and publish. It stands to reason that podcasting is an ideal mechanism for students to share their work and makes learning more real. We are no longer limited by plain text on the Web. Student publishers can publish a variety of content online, including audio and video podcasts.

As podcast continues to grow so does the industry mood stays positive and we look to things to become simpler with time.

Reference:

Starak, Yaro (2005, August, 15). What is a podcast and how can I use one? Entrepreneurs
Journey Podcast, Retrieved June 15, 2007, from http://www.entreprenueurs-
journeys.com/203/what-is-a-podcast