Thing 20

Podcasting-
I am in amazement that so many people are listening to things. I had no idea. I do not know where people find the time, but perhaps when they are listening to their mp3players, they are listening to more than just music. I just never thought of it.

I guess I am being picky now on what I subscribe to. Earlier in 23 Things, I just subscribed to a bunch of blogs, only to have to delete them later as I just didn't have time to read them and they were filling up my feed area. I still subscribe to a few. Now, with this podcasting, I really do not see me using it for any personal use. I would much rather read the material than listen to it. I am however, interested in how I could use this in the classroom and so I spent a few hours exploring different podcasts on ITunes that I could actually use in my class. What I found were that most are pretty long. It took me a while to find a podcast that was under 2 minutes and pertained to my content area. I plan to use this once a week with students for diversion/variety. What I am now trying to figure out is how I can subscribe to an RSS fee via my email at work. It doesn't look like I can and so this is getting frustrating. I guess I will have to subscribe through my google email. I am still exploring possibilities.

This is what is frustrating to so many educators- the tech issues that get in the way of doing what you want to do. I am tired of having a thousand different sites I have to go to in order to do things.

Right now I am subscribes to a Cousteau Society video-podcast that updates. It is less than 2 minutes long and is high interest. I found this on ITunes- which I found kind of easy, but thought that there were too many steps to get what I wanted. When I went on Podcast Alley, it was much easier to navigate. While the graphics were not there as they were in ITunes, it was much easier to just take a quick listen before you subscribe. I subscribed via my google reader to the Teacher 2.0 podcast. It is between 5-7 minutes in length- as close to perfect for me!