07.25.08

Lesson 6: Podcasts

Posted in Montana Library 2.0 Challenge at 11:37 am by rioghail

Like RSS feeds podcasts are awesome!  I really like the idea of having the information I’m interested in automatically downloaded to my computer so I don’t have to go out looking for it.  Also like the RSS feeds I can see how easy it is to get information overload with podcasts.  There is just way too many interesting things to learn out there and just not enough time. 

I checked out a couple of podcast aggregators but didn’t download any.  I chose to just use iTunes since it was already on my computer. 

I did some searching through iTunes and Podcastalley and found all sorts of interesting things out there.  There are a ton of different podcasts out there for learning a variety of languages.  I thought I might have to try that sometime in the future.  I found a podcast for the discovery channel and got all excited since that’s the channel I miss the most when we canceled our satellite service.  Unfortunately  the programs where just short trailers and introductions to the episodes so that just left me wanting more.  The good thing about that is I now know how to unsubscribe from a podcast  too.  I found a podcast about dog training that I couldn’t resist subscribing to and then since I’m doing this on my work computer I thought I should find some library related podcasts to  try.  One that might be of particular interest to the  participants in this class is “Cool Tools for Library 2.0″.  The other  ones I  subscribed to are  “The Library Channel” ;  “Library Geeks“; “Library Luminary Lectures“; and “Uncontrolled  Vocabulary“.

Tags: Montana, Library 2.0, Challenge, Podcasts

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