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E-Podcast
Jennifer Southcombe, Memorial University of Newfoundland (jennifer-please complete your user page)
Definitions and background
O’Bannon, Lubke, Beard and Britt (2011) describe a podcast as “digital media files distributed through the Internet and downloaded through syndication for playback on a computer or MP3 player" (p. 1885). Podcasts can be either audio only recordings or audio recordings that include enhancements such as video or PowerPoint slides (Walls, Kucsera, Walker, Acee, McVaugh & Robinson, 2010). Podcasts in educational situations tend to be recordings of entire lectures or shorter supplemental recordings referring to specific content topics (Hew, 2009).
The term podcast was created from a combination of Apple’s iPod” and the term “broadcasting” (O’Bannon et al., 2011, p.1885). Podcasts are unique from other digital media in that they can be subscribed to through Really Simple Syndication (RSS) (Anzai, 2009). Any new podcasts will be automatically downloaded for users that subscribe to the RSS feed (Walls et al., 2010). Podcasts can also be accessed from links posted in Learning Management Systems (LMS) or other web spaces for downloading any time onto a variety of digital devices, including personal computers, tablets, smart phones, MP3 players and iPods (Scutter, Stupans, Sawyer & King, 2010).
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