Monday, 12 May 2014

What is a podcast?

Bradshaw and Rohumma (2013) note that a “podcast is a digital audio file that can be distributed over the internet” (p.93). Podcasts can come in many different forms such as interviews, discussions, video clips or even information guides. Podcasts allow everyone and not just journalists to broadcast their ideas out loud and share information in a creative way. According to Richardson (2010) Podcast, just like blogs and wiki’s are now widely used throughout higher education to promote creativity throughout learning.  
For this particular assignment we have been asked to work in groups of no more than three people to produce a podcast to show how an out of classroom environment can develop an innovative scientific idea. In order to do this, we will be undertaking our research on educational trips such as St Fagan’s. Once we have an idea that each person in the group agrees on we will then do more specific research into the chosen topic in order to come up with the podcast. In the specific assignment criteria it is stated that ‘The podcast can be in the form of a film, documentary or interview or any other contemporary idea.

References
Bradshaw. P and Rohumaa. L. (2013) The online journalism handbook. Oxon: Routledge

Richardson. W. (2010) Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. London: Sage

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