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podcast [n.]
A podcast is a digital media file or collection of files that is distributed over the internet. The files can then be played back on a computer or personal player [e.g. an Ipod]. The method by which podcasts are distributed is often called podcasting.
University of Birmingham Media Centre, Glossary
The word podcast comes from Apple’s iPod and the word “broadcast”.
There are podcasts on literally every topic imaginable, from podcasters of every kind. Podcasts can be either audio or video. Some are quite personal, others on professional topics. We have concentrated on the second.
The podcasts are separated into two main groups - educational and general. Within each we have divided into Australian and International.
There is also a section on building a podcast or videocast of your own and places where you can have these hosted for Free.
As with all material available from the internet, you should check the source carefully. You should be happy to have an answer
from an expert, but not as confident with information from someone without standing in the area. We have tried to make this a listing which
follows this principle.
Take care when accessing a podcast/videocast to ensure they are suitable and appropriate for the person
using them !
For an article on the History of Podcasting, visit this Wikipedia site. Another site covering history, what they are, other uses and more can be found at Podcast Definition.
Education Podcasts
Australian
Individual Sites
- 21st Century Educator
‘An Aussie Educator [not ours] Podcast’. - EdPod
Fortnightly podcast from the ABC [Australia]. Archived material. Download audio versions. - SkillSoup
‘Making the transition from high school to university or from undergraduate to post graduate studies can be challenging for many students’. Podcast from the Australian National University’s Academic Skills and Learning Centre. - The Career Path
‘The Career Path is a weekly segment with ABC Presenter Chris Coleman and local Careers Counsellor Karen Murray aimed at students from year nine, through TAFE, to University’. - Up Close Podcast
‘Melbourne University Up Close is a fortnightly audio talk show about research, personalities and cultural offerings at the University of Melbourne’.
Link Portals
- Discover ANU Podcasts
Diverse topics covered in podcasts from education to Climate Change. - Teachers TV Australia
‘Teachers TV Australia is the Australian equivalent of the successful UK initiative, Teachers TV [see below]. Teachers TV content often features great teachers and teaching in action. Stories are focussed on classroom and school observation to illustrate how different teachers deal with challenges, ideas, problems, innovation and systems’. Register for Free. - University of New South Wales Podcasts
‘UNSW on iTunesU carries research stories from across all Faculties, guest lectures from luminary speakers, academics being probed On The Couch, course material and music’. Requires iTunes software. - University of Sydney Podcasts
Access all episodes from 2006 to now. - Griffith University Podcasts
The latest podcasts. Also a listing of what is available.
International
Individual Sites
- Connect Learning
‘An educator since deep into the last century. Welcome to my microphone, and some outside the box ideas about classrooms, teaching, and learning in the 21st century’. - Dangerously Irrelevant
‘Ruminations on technology, leadership, and the future of our schools’. US based podcast. - EdTechTalk
‘EdTechTalk is a community of educators interested in discussing and learning about the uses of educational technology. We webcast several live shows each week’. Other options for listening also provided. - Education Transformation
Interviews with significant educators and other educational material. - English as a Second Language Podcast
More for senior students and adults than younger people. Uses real life situations as a basis of the learning. - Grammar Girl, Quick & Dirty Tips
‘Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules’. Award winning podcast. - Havens Centre Audio Archives
[From the University of Wisconsin, Madison]
Eclectic podcast collection to listen to or download. Data relating to usage of each is provided. - Stanford on iTunes
‘Download courses, faculty lectures, interviews, music and sports. Play on your iPod, Mac or PC, or burn a CD. Stay Connected anytime, anywhere. Experience a wealth of learning from Stanford’. - Teachers TV
‘Teachers TV is a channel for everyone who works in education, from heads to NQTs, governors to support staff. The programmes take you inside classrooms and schools across the UK to see how good teachers are bringing the curriculum to life and improving schools’. - UChannel
[Also Known as the University Channel]
‘A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world - for you to view, listen to, stream or download’.
Original site closed November, 2010. These 98 episodes still available from iTunes. - Word Explorer
‘Word Explorer is for anyone interested in language. Mostly, people are curious about etymologies, unusual words, definitions, and pointers about usage and grammar. Word Explorer with Venus looks into all that, and explains interesting information about words in a sound bite’.
Link Portals
- 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter
‘Here are 15 podcasts in particular that will make you a smarter, more well rounded and better informed person’. - Education Podcast Network
‘The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century’. 100s of podcasts in directories. - Education Podcasts
[From Preschool to PhDs]
Extensive listing of annotated links to educational podcasts of every kind. Part of a podcast directory at Podfeed.net. - Podcasts for Educators, Schools & Colleges
[Educational Podcasting for Teaching and Learning]
‘Welcome to educators, parents and carers everywhere. This is the first and best UK directory to locate quality podcasts from over 400 carefully selected podcast channels for educational use - ideal for teaching and learning activities with children, young people and educational professionals’. Check material accessed via the left hand menu. - Podlounge
[Education Category]
Almost 2 000 links included on every aspect of education. - TeacherTube
‘We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers’. - The Top 25 Educational Podcasts on
iTunes
Most relate to other languages.
Other Podcasts
Australian
Individual Sites
- AM
‘AM is Australia’s most informative morning current affairs program. It covers the stories each morning that the other current affairs teams follow for the rest of the day. You can listen to today’s full program or individual reports in Real Media, Microsoft Windows Media or MP3’. - BobCasts
Podcasts by Senator Bob Brown on politics, environment and more. - Boyer Lectures
Access all lectures in all series back to and including 1997 [minus 2002]. - BRAN
‘… a healthy dose of tech. Join Australian journalists Roulla Yiacoumi, Angus Kidman and Nathan Taylor as they chat about the big tech news of the week, on Australia’s edgiest tech podcast’. - Enough Rope
Download MP3 files covering all the guests on Enough Rope. - Foreign Correspondent
Reports from the ABC’s foreign correspondents. Transcripts and program videos. - Landline
From Australia’s ABC, comes this podcast based on rural affairs, events, achievements, etc.. - Lingua Franca
From Australia’s ABC, comes this podcast based on the study of language. - PM
‘PM covers a broad spectrum of issues relevant to all sections of Australia’s geographically and culturally diverse community’. - Science Podcast
‘Science’s weekly podcast takes you on a tour of some interesting stories in the journal and on its sister sites. You can listen to these audiocasts on your own computer simply by clicking on the Listen to MP3 links on the podcast announcements’. - The World Today
‘A comprehensive current affairs program which backgrounds, analyses, interprets and encourages debate on events and issues of interest and importance to all Australians’.
Link Portals
- ABC Podcasting [Australia]
‘Use the navigation [on] the left to browse all ABC podcasts, or check out the highlights below [on the site]. For technical assistance and further information, visit the Help/FAQs section’. - CSIROPod
Find how to receive CSIRO podcasts and check those available. Covers topics that deal with matters in the education curriculum as well as outside. - Radio National - Podcasts and MP3s
‘Welcome to Radio National’s MP3 audio and podcast service. Now you can download more and more of our broadcast programs and special features. You can hear entire programs, selected segments, and now special content compiled for podcast and download only’. Select by alphabetical listing, subject area, extra downloads or highlighted sites. They also have an Education Page. - Science Podcasts
‘Get caught up in the podcasting frenzy, but in a sciencey way ! You can now have the latest ABC Science Online and Radio National science shows to download at your leisure or to have magically delivered when you subscribe via RSS feed’. - The Podcast Network [TPN]
Information and podcasts grouped under major headings. ‘Today we have over half a million monthly listeners and have served over 4 million podcasts’.
International
Individual Sites
- ADHD Podcast for Children & Parents
[The Dr. C & Elwood Show]
Very short selection covering the topic by an American doctor and his puppet. - American Phonic
A podcast covering American historical documentation. Useful in studying US history. - BBC History Magazine
‘ Welcome to the BBC History Magazine’s podcast page. To listen to the podcast, simply click on one of the links. If you don’t have a podcast player, you can download the mp3 files from the links’. - BBC World Service
‘The best stories, interviews and on the spot reporting from around the world including highlights from Newshour, The World Today and World Briefing’. - Entrepreneurship Corner
‘The Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series takes place every Wednesday during the academic quarters. You may subscribe via iTunes or directly via RSS feed’. US based podcast with topic listing covering several years. Emphasises entrepreneurial topics. - Ethics Bites
‘From the general, to the specific, from art to business and sport, from sex, to babies and the family, to death, Ethics Bites is a fascinating and absorbing series of interviews, covering an impressively broad range of topics. These include climate change and future generations, animal rights, euthanasia, corporate responsibility, perversion, plagiarism, in-vitro fertilization and art, pornography, censorship and free speech’. - New York Times Book Review Podcast
‘Each week, the editor of the Book Review, talks to authors, editors and critics about new books, the literary scene and current best sellers. The downloadable audio files are in mp3 format; instructions for subscribing to the podcast are [given]’. - Philosophy Bites
‘Podcasts of top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics …’. - Radio Disney
Material for the young and not so young. With the Disney name you can be assured of quality and suitability in the material presented. - Twit.tv
[This Week In Tech]
Done by Leo Laporte and friends. Covers news in a range of areas including both Mac and Windows.
Link Portals
- Digg.com Videos
Eclectic collection from the sublime to the ridiculous. This has taken over podcasts previously supplied. - DigitalPodcast
Large collection in directories from Art to Video Podcasts. - Culinary Media Network
A collection of food blogs with several highlighted. - Discovery Channel Podcasts
‘Subscribe to podcasts from Discovery’s family of networks. Listen to your favorite Discovery Channel series and specials, download Discovery News reports, and get behind-the-scenes interviews with your favourite Discovery hosts’. - Free Podcasts from National Geographic
‘Download the latest nature and science news, eye-opening photography, audio travel guides, classic video clips, world music coverage, and wild animal adventures with National Geographic’s free podcasts’. - Odeo
‘Home to millions of audio & video episodes from thousands of podcasts and media sites across the web, Odeo.com is part search engine, part media directory, and part social network. Users can search & explore media channels covering just about any topic or area of interest’. - Other Language Podcasts
More than 30 are listed. - Phonecasting
This links to popular podcasts. You also have access to their Phonecast listing. - Podcast411
Covers many podcasts. Information and tutorials on how to podcast, news, tools and more. - Podcast Alley
‘Podcast Alley is the podcast lovers portal. Featuring the best Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts, as voted on by the listeners’. The Education [Podcast Alley] listing is found here, with nearly 1 600 listed. - PodcastBlaster
This has a directory of 90 000+ podcasts and a Fee-based program to create your own podcasts. Cost is reasonable. - Podcast.com
‘Podcast.com is the ultimate podcast collection ! Now showing more than 60 000 podcasts’. Grouped in multiple channels. - Podcast Directory
[Podcasting News]
Select appropriate podcasts from the index.
Caution should be exercised when some of these are to be accessed ! - PodcastDirectory.com
Vast listing in sub-directories, with specialist links on the left hand side [popularity, country, language, tags, what is podcasting, software, … . The Education [PodcastDirectory] directory is found here, as is The Health & Fitness Show. - PodcastPickle
‘PodcastPickle has everything you need to start enjoying podcasts. PodcastPickle works with the software you already have’. Podcasts by genre, top or new podcasts, random choices, forum. - Podseek
A Podcast Search Engine. Has listings under several heading and also tools, dictionary, etc.. - Public Radio Podcast Directory
‘The public radio programs listed [below] are available as recorded podcasts. Each program has a podfeed link. The easiest way to receive a podcast is to copy-and-paste the feed link into a podcasting program such as iTunes or Juice [was iPodder]’. In topic areas. Mostly US, but some other world links. - Scientific American Podcasts
Want to know about science ? Like podcasts as a way of finding out ? You have to visit this site. - The Disney Podcast Network
‘The Disney Podcast Network is a collective of some of the finest Disney Podcasts available on the internet. The DPN represents a family of unique shows which cater to different audience tastes’. - Top 50 Podcasts for Learning a Foreign
Language
‘Textbooks and word drills are important as you learn, but even more valuable is practice listening and speaking the language. These podcasts will help you hone your listening skills and increase your proficiency in no time’. - UK Podcasts
Links to podcasts for a range of areas. - Universe Today
Extensive listing from Asteroids to Where in the Universe ?. Selected podcasts given more detail on the home page.
Creating a Podcast
Education Podcasts
- Edupodder
[Podcasting in Education]
Explanations about what podcasting is and how it is created. - KidCast : Learning and Teaching with Podcasting.
‘Dan Schmit, on iTunes’. - Podcasting
Two main sections - Using Existing Podcasts to Enhance Education; Creating Podcasts to Enhance Teaching and Learning. Each provides a range of links to sources of information. Two other link collections on related topics. Collated by the Baltimore County Public Schools, US. - Podcasts in the Classroom
From the Western Australian Department of Education and Training. Information on using podcasts in the educational setting. - Podcasting Basics
‘Welcome to our introductory course on the basics of educational podcasting, designed for educators wanting to find out more about this topic. All visitors have “guest access” to the contents of this course’. - Podcasting in Teaching and Learning
‘On this page, you’ll find a set of resources intended to help you plan podcasts and identify how podcasting can enhance your teaching and students’ learning’. Oxford University. - Engage - Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Technology
‘Podcasting is a new medium that enables you to easily incorporate on-demand audio recordings into your curriculum. Follow the five steps below to get started creating your first podcast’.
Making & Using Podcasts
- Create Podcasts
Links to sites telling how to create podcasts and software that will help. - How to
Create Your Own Podcast
[A Step-by-Step Tutorial]
Detailed information plus links to podcast directories. - How to Podcast
‘The definitive step-by-step guide on how to podcast without breaking the bank. The Free podcast tutorial that will take your podcast from concept to launch fast and for minimal cost’. - PodcastFAQ - Creating a Podcast
Looks at planning, how to use either audio or video and publishing your media. Part of a larger site. - Podcasting in Plain English
‘Despite being around for years, podcasting is often misunderstood. This video is our way of building awareness and hopefully adoption of a technology any computer user can use’. - PodProducer
‘PodProducer is a software tool that lets anyone create a podcast easily, with just a microphone or headset you can be recording your podcast in seconds’. Freeware.