Just checking out some articles for my paper in google scholar and I came across the two new terms “vodcasts” and “audioblogging.” Hence I have learned that audioblogging came before podcasting. Wikipedia has some basic information; so does Encyclopedia Britannica. I was surprised to find out that podcasting became stabilized less than four years ago, around 2004, with mp3 format and RSS. At least that is what I think I remember about the data I gathered.
Computers & Education
Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2008, Pages 491-498
DEVELOPMENT, DISRUPTION & DEBATE – Selected Contributions from the CAL 07 Conference
Chris Evans
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aCentre for Educational Multimedia, Brunel Business School, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK
Received 30 April 2007; revised 21 September 2007; accepted 25 September 2007. Available online 7 November 2007.
I wonder how long podcasting has been used at schools for the blind? Have blind students had the opportunity to learn about more subjects and hear more information because of this medium, podcasting?
I am so accustomed to an audio feed that when I recently started a tutorial, I was having a fit when I could not get any sound. My friend had to tell me that there probably wasn’t any sound. I could not believe it. I cannot remember only “watching” a tutorial. There are probably a great many video clips without sound that I just don’t know about. Doesn’t sound very inviting, though. No pun intended.
