Saturday, November 18, 2006

My First Educational Podcast Download


I downloaded my first educational Podcast on my new Creative Zen V MP3 player today. I downloaded a lecture from Harvard. The Podcast, Harvard Extension School's Computer Science E1: Understanding Computers and the Internet. Their are several lectures in this course available free of charge.

I have found the Zencast really interesting. I copied the information contained in the "about" section below.

Empower your entertainment today with ZENcast
What is ZENcast?ZENcast is the ultimate source for free video blogs and podcasts on the Internet. It provides quick and easy access to a wide range of interesting and entertaining video and audio content online.
All your entertainment travels with you. Watch and listen to the latest news from CNET, BBC, ESPN, RocketBoom and the Singapore Straits Times. Enjoy golfing tips, movie reviews, health and fitness secrets, tech gear reviews and much more - anytime you want. Watch them all on the go with the award-winning ZEN players.
Enjoy the future of television todaySoon, everyone will carry their TV programs, movies, music and more on the go. You now have the power to create your very own Internet TV programs and share it with the world with ZENcast and
ZENcast Organizer. It's also extremely easy to create and download video blogs and podcasts.
About podcasts and video blogsPodcasts, short for Personal On Demand broadcast, is defined in the New Oxford Amercian Dictionary as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player".


I am really interested in exploring this new technology. I haven't read the content of Learning Unit 4 of my course but plan to do so over the Thanksgiving Holiday.

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