According to iTunes, a podcast is an episodic program delivered via the web. Podcast episodes can be audio files, video files, documents or any combination of the three. Consumers subscribe to the podcast using an app, such as iTunes, which can play the file and download new episodes.
Because podcasts can include several of the most common types of media, they can be used to offer many different kinds of programs. Any television or radio program can be transmitted as a podcast as can any lecture, performance or other recorded event.
Podcast - Making American Students "Globally Competent"
American students are notoriously inept when it comes to knowing about the rest of the world.
But the Asia society is trying to change that. - From Learning Matters
Click on the link below to listen to the podcast.
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Podcast - Foreign Languages Part I
To thrive in a global marketplace, we need to understand the role of language.
The monolingual worker is at a disadvantage today, and will be more so in the
future. Yet a majority of American youth are not studying a world language, and
few become fluent in anything but their native tongue. We need to fix this and
technology can help.
technology can help.
Click on the link below to listen to the podcast.
http://powertolearn.typepad.com/teaching_with_technology/files/foreign1.mp3
Podcast - Foreign Languages Part II
This discussion is about how we mesh technology with what we know about language learning.
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