Wow! Learning about ITV and Podcasts was enlightening. I have heard of podcast but never saw how they can be used in an educational environment. I was so curious about how podcasting works that I actually took the advice from Richardson (2006) and downloaded the free software called Audacity. It is very simple to set up, but I had a difficult time trying to save my casts to the accompanying software used for storing your podcasts. I loved playing with it. My son read a story and loved hearing his voice; we later tried adding sound affects to it, which made it even more interesting. I see a lot of potential educational use in podcasting.
Interactive Television is definately a new phenomenon to me. I read several articles on ITV and the one most interesting made a few points in which I can relate to. One being that most often TV is a medium in which one relaxes and enjoys the comfort and simplicity of not having to do anything other than watch or listen. I don't watch much TV--only a few episodes of Seinfield or Martin when I need a good laugh. The TV must be already turned to these shows because I find our remote control too complex to use. I can imagine how complicated a remote control would be to an ITV. Sometimes all the blows and whistles that iare supposed to make technology easy and more interactive is simply a turn-off!
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I did the same. I had to email the people at Spin Express a few times to figure out how to load the podcast on to the Internet for them to host it but it's all set up now. Check it out at:http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/Rinehart/
Go to the "Home Page" and look under "Podcasts of Great Books". This way I do not need to take room up on the website to put the file.
Hi Denise,
As with you and Christine I explored Audacity also. Yeah, I agree saving the audio wasn't as easy as Richardson (2006) explained it in the book. I still haven't figured it out. That was a great idea to have your son read a book using it, though. What did he think of his playback?
Although I have not seen them, I have read that the ITV remotes are pretty confusing looking. Until they simply them, I'll pass on wanting to personally see one.
I have not tried out Audacity, but I think I will make time for it soon.
Christine, thanks for the url for the podcast. I will check it out now.
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