Podcasting is another fun media but I often do not have time to listen to all that I find interesting. I do not have enough hours in the day to do this. The CommonCraft video explaining Podcasting is, of course, very good. I am amazed and pleased that Lee and Sachi have created a cottage industry with this virtual concept. They do a great job of making technical concepts understandable.
NPR music , All Music Considered, is one of my fav podcasts. I do have an account at iTunes and have even purchased a couple of apps (bird songs of North America) and mainstream songs but I find iTunes hard to use – maybe I just do not have enough practice at it.
I listened to a podcast of one of the community college sites listed in the list of libraries with regular podcasts for some ideas. Hearing one of those podcasts hatched an idea for me to do my own podcast to post on my academic learning web page where I work. My content would be new materials purchased in my collection development areas of Education and Life Sciences and encouraging my faculty to investigate these new resources. It seems like listening to content is a good short cut to reading about it...something to “field test”. I have all the ingredients except the mic – my experience has been with the DSP-500 PC Headset by Plantronics, so that is probably what my cat will give me for Christmas. It is at her price point. My experience with it in my past work was excellent especially with noise cancellation. It was great with talking power points.
But, first I will have to get the Collection Development purchases done. I can play with my concept during the Winter Break. WB is one of the things I love about being an Academic Librarian.
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