Posted by admin on February 1st, 2012
‘Londonist Out Loud podcast’ is a regular audio guide to London, produced and presented at Londonist. The podcast covers the life and culture of the city.
Since the podcasts are out sometimes more often than once in a fortnight, you could keep track of them through Londonist Podcasts, or even better, by subscribing to the podcast at iTunes- Londonist Out Loud.
All citizens, whether concerned or simply interested, are sure to find the topics of the podcasts very useful, because they cover a wide range of London’s features and plenty of current issues that matter to everyone. So you can hear about “London unfurled, London celebrated and London dissected”, “Inside Battersea Dogs and Cats Home”, or “A tour of the Occupy LSX camp near St Paul’s”.
Posted by admin on December 13th, 2011
One of the most bountiful sources of educational podcasts is perhaps the University of Oxford podcast series. This is a free site featuring public lectures, teaching material, interviews with leading academics, information about applying to the University, and plenty of other useful material.
The user will be able to access the material that may be in audio, video or document format. In the full list of all series, you can browse the podcasts alphabetically, or by the number of episodes, or by the date of update, and of course by the popularity. Alternately, you can look up the featured podcasts lists – of people, series, and departments & colleges.
Posted by admin on October 14th, 2011
Here is a useful listing of the top tech podcasts on the Internet.
Find out why these podcasts are popular.
Posted by admin on August 8th, 2011
“Podcasting is the best way to showcase your talent, especially with commercial radio running out of space for personality” says Olly Mann of the award-winning ‘Answer Me This’ podcast.
Podcasting became a buzzword in the year 2005. It was named as the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary that year. There are estimates that more than 150,000 podcasts are available, on a variety of subjects.
This BBC report titled Podcasts: Who still listens to them? on the status of ‘old-fashioned’ podcasting sums up the phenomenon – “podcasting still offers is a chance for anyone to get behind a microphone and, for all intents and purposes, make a radio programme”. Fans of the podcasting technology will be glad to hear that “Podcasting remains more popular than the social media site Twitter”.
Posted by admin on July 12th, 2011
With the variety of podcasts available on the Web, it would be a good idea if you had a convenient listing of sources of podcasts of different genres. Here are a few sources – you could call each of them a directory of directories.
Directory of Interesting UK Podcasts for News, Radio, Sport, Education – TheBigProject
Educational podcasts for teaching and learning – RECAP Limited
List of directories focused on Audio and Video Podcasts - Podcast411
Accurate and up to date content from only British podcasts – BritCaster
Podcasts and Podcasts Directory – itunestracks
Posted by admin on June 14th, 2011
The Guardian group carries a feature called Science Weekly which regularly includes a podcast on science.
In the latest podcast in the series, the presenter has packed in a lot of stuff. There is a part on the science fiction exhibition at The British Library. There is a studio discussion with astronomer and author Stuart Clark on his novel The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth. The book is said to explore the early days of astronomy through the lives of Johannes Kepler and Galileo.
Here’s where you can access the podcast – Science Weekly
Posted by admin on November 28th, 2010
Utterly brilliant medical teaching podcasts to help trainee doctors revise for professional medical exams.
Dr Podcast provides podcasts of questions and model answers for the whole UK syllabus. Students have the model answer presented to them in just the way the examiners expect to hear it.
Using Dr Podcast students can listen to the perfect exam answer, experience the format of the questions they are likely to be asked and hear tips on how to excel in their exam. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on November 19th, 2010
One of the best uses that podcasting has been put to here in the UK and elsewhere is in the field of teaching. You will be amazed at the variety of web-enabled teaching aids that could prove a treasure house for educators, parents and students or just about anyone associated with the teaching community.
If you are a teacher, you may like to access educational content to enhance your teaching ideas and support innovative instruction in your classroom. There are plenty of podcasting channels dedicated to providing quality content to different age groups, different target student groups and perhaps as continuing professional development aids. For starters, look up The Guardian’s series of Teacher’s TV podcastst, and PoducateMe. Read the rest of this entry »
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