Podcasts use audio or video files that can be streamed or downloaded to mobile devices or computers.

Learner Applications: Identify useful/valuable information; listen or view; communicate, demonstrate

Instructor Applications: Lecture, communicate, demonstrate

Examples:

• Berkeley Courses - Podcasts from science, humanities, social sciences.
• MIT Opencourseware - Links to all open MIT courses with video and audio feeds.
• Apple links to HE podcasts�

Services:

• Audacity - Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds
• Cyberears - Podcast hosting, promotions, and recording assistance service
• Education Podcast Network - A repository of podcasts from all disciplines as well as information about how to create and use podcasts for learning.
• Odeo - over 4002855 mp3 files on all kinds of topics; you can record and offer your own audio cast through this service.
• Podbean - Upload and store your podcasts here.
• Podcast People - Powerful web-based service that makes it easy for individuals and businesses to create, distribute, and control video and audio shows over the Internet
• Educational Podcast Referatories - Locate existing podcasts to use in your classes.

Successful Practices:

• Podcasting/Vodcasting: Distributing Your Audio and Video Files Via the Web from Cataylst at the University of Washington - a very practical step by step explanation.

References:

• ELI's DiscoveryToool: Guide to Podcasting - A basic introduction with information about how to make successful.
  
• Everyone’s learning with podcasting: A Charles Sturt University experience

• Learning through Listening from RFB&D and CAST - Designed for K-12 the principles presented from this organization are helpful to consider if we expect students to learn from podcasts.