Podcasts

One can subscribe to podcasts using many different aggregators, such as Google Reader or Bloglines, or one might use a podcatcher such as iTunes or Juice (formerly iPodder). Our class created a cool tools podcast as a group project, and Professor Faires shows many ways to subscribe to the podcast (which includes text and video), in the introduction to the project. I like iTunes, as I describe in this post from econolibrarian. I made a very bad podcast that week and a slightly less bad podcast about LiveMocha, Episode 8 here (though not marked as such), and also previously on this blog under the entry on LiveMocha. I suggest Audacity for making podcasts, and I suggest finding many screencasting projects and then making the screencasts within the 30-day trial period with Camtasia, before you have to pay $500. A library that was doing a lot of screencasts for information literacy or staff training might want to invest the $500, though, since you can see what a rank amateur did (Live Mocha entry or del.icio.us tutorial).