Objectives

By the end of this briefing pack you will:

• Understand how podcasts can be used in education
  
• Understand the terms podcast and podcasting
  
• Understand how to download software for creating/editing podcasts
  
• Be aware of available software for creating and editing audio files
  

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RSS Feeds

There are many different ways in which users can receive and listen to podcasts such as RSS feeds from the Internet, this will be explained. But as RSS feeds are generally hosted on a server, this is outside of the scope of this pack; however links to sites which host podcasts and have RSS feeds can be found in the links section.

This pack will concentrate how podcasts can be used in education and how audio files (MP3s) can easily be created using simple cheap equipment and free software.