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[|What's a Podcast and what should I do about it?] from Cobb County Schools (Georgia): //"A primer for educators on the latest rage in media delivery."//

[|An Introduction to Podcasting] from an educator named Doug Peterson who has a really nice staff development site [|here]

[|Podcasting Secrets #1 - "Cleaning up" your audio]... watch this intriguing screencast by Jon Udell, who is demonstrating what he calls "the [|audio editing techniques] used by the NPR pros". Then ask yourself about the ethics of what he's doing. Better yet, show it to your students and ask //them// about the ethics in what he's doing. (To read the entire blog entry the video came from, [|click here].) He dives into that ethical morass in a previous podcast and blog entry, [|both of which can be found here].

[|PodSafeAudio] - //"This site aims to provide a location where musicians can upload music under the Creative Commons license for use in Podcasts, Mashups, Shoutcasts, Webcasts and every other kind of 'casting' that exists on the 'net."//

[|Voicethread] is pretty amazing -- podcasting with pictures... and other users can comment with audio and contribute their own pictures!

//Most educational podcasts are originally posted on the educators' blogs, but using an aggregator, you can locate good educational podcasts more easily. Here's a useful podcast aggregator: [|iTunes]! (Read [|more about podcasting in general and using iTunes] in particular.)//

Video Podcasting (Vodcasting or Vidcasting) //-// this is also known as web cam broadcasting... how do you do it, and how do you distribute it?