Poscasting

This week discussion is about Podcasting. I learned that Podcasting is essentially and recorded lecture, this is essentially in a form of an audio version. In today world this is a very useful tool. This can go great with classes such as online classes, where the teacher/professor would record themselves giving a lecture so the student can log on an hear the discussion. Podcasting can be a useful tool in the classroom. Such in college when the professor know that they will not be in class due to a meeting or something. They can easily record themselves giving the lecture and making available online for the student in that class to be able to listen it. Podcasting can also be useful in the elementary level, where the teacher can record themselves reading a book to the student.  The student can log on read along with the teacher without having her be there physically. 

Podcasting and Web 2.0 application have some similarity and differences. One similarity of course is that it uses technology. Podcasting is different from Web 2.0 because its normally some type of audio. While Web 2.0 is more like many tools that one can use to interact with one another. In Web 2.0 you have the wiki, social bookmarking , voice threat and many other more tools. One can say that Web 2.0 is more likely aimed for group and allow more interaction. While Poadcasting is more or aiming toward a group as well but there is little interaction in it. For example, in podcasting one can record themselves give a lecture over a certain topic, the only interaction that there will be is that the listener is just listening to the person who recorded the podcast. While in Web 2.0 one can write their ideas that they have and share it with one another and they can give some feedback by simply posting a comment or use a wiki, there are many tools that they can use to get feedback and interaction between one another. Those are some differences between Web 2.0 and Podcasting.

Though I don't like to admit it at time but i can say that i have listen to some podcasting in the past. It made it easier for me to stay connected and be caught up to what is going on. Although i do not have an iPod at the time to be able to listen to my favorite poscast that i use to listen I have recently found other ways to stay connected such as an app in my phone. thinking about buying myself an ipod thought to listen to music. I think using your ipod or MP3 in the classroom can be a good idea depending on the way one uses it. I remember when I was in high school our school would let us use our electronic devices such as ipod to listen to music and our phone in between classes. Our teacher would let us listen to music while we did our work. I think that this is a good ideas because student especially in todayy generation we tend to be more productive when there music around us. Though this may be a good idea i would draw the line. would not let student use there ipod when there a lesson going on. There are advantage and disadvantage when it comes to online communication. one disadvantage is that it if technology fails then so does the communtication. also communicating with oneather is not the same as talking to someone in person. so many problems can get started because of mis interpretation. An advantage of this that they are able to help out with those that are far away from each other such as military family. this is a good way for them to keep in touch with one another.