There’s Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education

December 19, 2005

It’s midweek at Anywhere State University. Jenny rolls out of bed at about nine a.m., as usual, and thinks about breakfast and her first class. As she’s dressing and getting ready to go out, she fires up iTunes on her laptop and checks her podcast subscriptions. There’s a new show from Adam Curry at Daily Source Code, another one from Cody at Vinyl Podcast (“fair use of forgotten music”), and three audio feeds from her classes. She doesn’t notice that the classroom material and the leisure-time entertainment are coming through the same medium and desktop utility; for her, it’s natural that school stuff would mingle with other aspects of her daily life.

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