Thing12 Podcast Intro

hmmm... listening instead of visualizing art?? podcasts??? I'm not so sure that this is the direction I need to be heading, but I'm open to taking a look-see (or should I say, keep my ears open to what might be out there for me :-)

Background for folks who may be reading my blog and might be as unfamiliar with the term as I was: As explained in 23Things, the word podcast comes from a combination of the words iPod and broadcast. And as this hootenanney [60's-talk] clip, You Don't Need an iPod, explains, it is quite a common and easily accessible method of communication nowadays: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpciLIA0Kn4

Probably more appealing to the current batch of high school students that I teach would be this Ninja version of quickly explaining "podcast": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEmss2lg-ug
Listening to the honors chemistry podcast commercials triggered a thought that I could have my basic design students create infomercials about color harmonies... verbalizing concepts that are typically grasped by visual representation would be challenging but the delivery format would make that challenge fun to implement.

Several podcasts I tried to visit didn't cooperate in downloading/uploading... (I believe it's my quicktime, not their podcast.)

Speaking of what I believe, one site for podcasting, Digital Voices, has a space dedicated to This I Believe. I found that it was well-worth the search to get here and the time to listen as 46 high school students speak clearly and powerfully about what they believe about their life, their country, their society, etc. https://digitalvoices.wikispaces.com/space/filelist

The National Gallery of Art has a variety of podcasts available as well as rss feeds: http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm

So my initial skepticism over podcasting having any relevance to what I teach is definitely being pushed aside as possibilities and potential become increasingly more promising...