This site
http://www.abc.net.au/services/podcasting/ is the homepage of all the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's
podcasts. As they now produce
podcasts of all their radio shows (and have done for years) there's a lot of good stuff to listen to. I particularly like 'Dr Karl's Great Moments in Science' the podcast of which you can subscribe to as an
RSS feed at this link:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/podcast/gmis.xml which I found on this page:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/drkarl/greatmomentsinscience/?WT.mc_id=science_podcast_gmis. The title is self explanatory as to the content, which covers everything from the solar system to human behaviour and it's fun, it's interesting and easy to understand. The backing of the ABC, a respected and long established news organisation,
combined with the credentials of Dr. Karl
Kruszelnicki - he has degrees in Physics, Maths, Biomedical Engineering, Medicine and Surgery - make this an authoritative source.
Incidentally, things I learnt while doing this evaluation include:
- Video downloads are known as 'vodcasts'. Why didn't I know that already and why haven't we heard the word in this unit?
- Dr Karl was a Distinguished Foreign Guest (capitals deliberate) of the USA's Information Agency in 1996.
- The spellcheck on blogger doesn't recognise 'podcast' as a word, but MS Word does.
Dr Karl! How marvelous!
ReplyDeletei really miss listening to him on the radio. Offering access to and information about podcasts and vodcasts from local broadcasters would be a good way to integrate a library (or LINC) into a community.
Another good site for podcasts of an authoritative nature, Ben. Remember you need to give full citation details for these.
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