Posts Tagged as ‘podcasting’

10 January 2007

iPhone seems to be an Internet device for development

Mr Jobs just launched Apple’s new innovation called iPhone.

It seems to be something really ahead. It seems to be a good device to bring internet around the countries, in the fields, with the extensionists everyday, everywhere. A huge screen to browse and send emails, a nice camera to shoot the activities, a phone to dialogue [...]

29 September 2006

Enriching my blog with podcasts from Odeo

Time ago I tested Odeo, a podcasting resource you can use as a radio channel, a recording studio or a place to store your audio files. Now, I have the possibility to integrate it in my blog, and there it is, you can now listen from here to the Welcome message to Com4Dev channel:

25 September 2006

Blogging for community

A very interesting article by Nancy White about new way to use blog for online communities.
After reading this, you can hear what she said about this in her recent conversation in Australia about this topic.
Still, as she says, everything is new and we all can say what we think about it.

29 March 2006

Web 2.0 – next step of the Internet

What is web 2.0?
Have a look around and make the concept yours. You will hear a lot about it in the near future.
Good hints at What Is Web, Dion Hinchcliffe blog, TechCrunch and Innovation Creators.

21 March 2006

Learning log – Week #5: mixing text and audio

It was nice hearing voices – It adds the personal touch to it all.
I think integrating audio, if it is possible, in an online workshop would be a brilliant idea.
Comments about sound experiment remind that Africa is rooted in the oral culture and traditions. At times audio messages are not only informative but entertaining. Different [...]

9 March 2006

Podcast and podcasting

Something to know:
Podcast – in common use, the term refers to audio files published to the web along with a news feed, letting users subscribe to a series of shows and download them automatically. Podcasts are a collection of files, such as audio MP3 files or other media files, referenced in an RSS 2.0 news [...]

2 March 2006

How to Podcast

We need to understand how to podcast.
This means that we need to transform a single audio file in a real podcast.The steps we have to follow are:

produce audio files and we store them somewhere on the web,
publish them in our blogs or webpages,
create podcast feeds,
promote them using services like iPodder, iTunes, etc.

It seems difficult but [...]

20 February 2006

My new Podcast station opened!

Something very interesting happened last Friday.
I discovered Odeo, a very interesting place that allows everyone to open a podcast station. What make me very surprised is that, with a microphone and a couple of speakers, you can have a podcast station ready to transmit in few minutes.
Try it and try to listen to my new [...]

16 February 2006

Podcasting supporting rural radios

Interesting news from the world of “podcasting for development” (shall we start talking about “poddev” ?!?! ). In Peru, Practical Action is testing the potential of podcasting to disseminate knowledge and information for poverty reduction, using a mixture of new and old technology. Read more about this experiment at http://www.practicalaction.org/?id=podcasting_peru

16 February 2006

Podcasting and e-learning: together in the future

This is something very interesting about podcasting learning contents:
http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=57606
http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/