Friday, October 31, 2008

Task 20: Podcasts, Smodcasts

This was a relatively easy task as I had already set up a podcast as an RSS feed into my bloglines account (which by the way I keep forgetting to look at)in task 8. The podcast I have chosen to listen to is The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler. When I am driving around in my car, if I'm not at work, I usually try to listen to this program. I find it very useful to look over the guests for the week and find out to whom I want to listen and listen to their stories at my leisure. My brother-in-law downloads this podcast onto his ipod and listens to these on the way to work on the train (exciting fellow!).

On a work note, I think it has great applications when running conferences for interstate or regional attendees - they can look at a slide presentation etc whilst listening to the podcast (means that rural/regional clients are not disadvantaged) - lots of good applications for what we do for our clients in the part of the library that I work in.

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