Podcasting is an interesting little innovation that people on the Internet use and enjoy nowadays. Blogging, although still quite popular, is becoming a thing of the past. My first experience of podcasting was a few months back with my friends, who invited me to join their podcast as a guest. We basically talked about video games—Final Fantasy—its ups and downs, and the best storylines amongst the video game line.
You’re probably wondering what it is I’m talking about when I say podcasting. You see, a podcast is a video or audio blog post that is made accessible via different podcasting services, as well as through subscriptions to the podcast feed itself. If you think about it, it’s pretty similar to RSS feeds, minus the text and images. It’s gaining a steady following because visual and auditory stimulation is very hard to ignore.
Using podcasts is not limited for personal use as digital diaries, but they can actually be used for more serious matters like education as one of the more interesting elearning tools. If developers were to create content for their online courses, they can use podcasts to feature the instructor’s voice or video to supplement the materials presented in text, images and so on. Or an elearning website can be created which solely revolves around podcasting which features instructional video and audio for their learners.
Every time I go online, I encounter different social media applications online and later find out that they’re being used for online learning as elearning tools. This is very interesting for me because I think that it is something that can really benefit a lot of people, particularly the evolving student whose needs may be linked with that with the technological evolution of society itself.
Such technology is developed according to the preferences of and trends in society. We are currently living in the age of digital and social media, and people of different industries are trying their best to harness these advancements to better cater to the needs of their consumers and clients.
Check out this interesting article: E-readers take CES by storm
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