Podcasts

SMARTBoard Lessons Podcast is done by Ben Hazzard and Joan Badger. I listened to episode 1, "The Beginning." It was the first episode of Teachers Connecting Podcasts. They are interested in sharing ideas from different teachers. I listened to parts of different episodes. In each one, Ben and Joan had a lot of pointless conversation. They really didn't start talking about something relative to education until about nine minutes into the episode. Joan discussed Survey Monkey. On the other hand, KidCast episodes began talking about their topics much quicker. It is done by Dan Schmit. In episode 4, he discusses who uses the internet, such as teens and teachers.
I then listened to David Warlick's ConnectLearning episode 90. In this episode he is at a conference with 9000 librarians. They discuss how podcasting can be used in the classroom and with take-home assignments. Information in the classroom can be made available to a large amount of people through podcasts. In episode 106 of EdTechTalk, the men discussed 21st Century Learning. Bill Campbell talked about Tablet PCs. In his school, all grades 6-12 all students use Tablet PCs.
The next podcast I listened to was MacBreak Weekly, episode 134, "Leaky Bits." In this episode they talked about Apple, iPhone, and Skype. They also discussed gotomeeting.com. They talked about their experiences with Skype, iPhone applications and twitter. In the first 15 minutes that I listened to, I really didn't learn anything. Their discussion was not focused on education nor technology in the classroom. Most of their podcasts were at least an hour long and I don't think any of them would be very educational. They made jokes about technological problems that I did not understand. For the most part it just seemed like men rambling.
Finally, I listened to This Week in Photography's episode 50, "Printing for Photographers." In this episode, the host brings in Andrew Darlow to discuss printing pictures and digital photography. They discuss pigments and dyes and different levels of printers. This podcast was perhaps the most organized out of all six. They introduced themselves appropriately and immediately began discussing the topic. Their conversation was easy to follow and sounded very natural. Although the subject was not relative to my interests, the podcast was very well done.