Saturday, May 17, 2008

Podcasting

I can see great potential for using Podcasting in the library environment. It would be great for collecting aural histories - this could be done with digital voice recorders. An older person might feel more comfortable talking about their life this way rather than being videod.

It could be used for staff training. Also for children borrowing picture fiction books - there could be a note on the book directing the child to a link on the library website where they could look at the pictures and hear the book being read aloud to them.

I liked the ABC podcast website. It is very well organized and easy to use - lots of interesting hours of listening.

1 comment:

pls@slnsw said...

Great ideas. Voicethread, which I think is covered in week 10 is a great mashup of both podcasts and photos..I think it is a great tool for local histories as it provides the sopftware for people to voice over on photographs..... it will be interesting see what you think.

Leanne