A podcast is a digital medium consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The word is a recent term and is still not very commonly used and is derived from "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of the iPod, the Apple walkman, as audio podcasts are often listened to on portable media players.
Podcasts are a new thing which bring together audio, the web and portable media player. It has lat people reconsider the traditional preconceptions about audiences, consumption, production and distribution. The best part about this technology is that nobody owns it: its is free to listen and create podcasts. Via this, producers become consumers and consumers become producers and engage in conversations with each other.
A podcast can be of many types:
· Video Podcast : A video podcast (sometimes shortened to "vodcast") includes video clips. Web television series are often distributed as video podcasts.
· Enhanced Podcast : An enhanced podcast can display images synchronized with audio. These can contain chapter markers, hyperlinks, and artwork; all of which is synced to a specific program or device. When an enhanced podcast is played within its specific program or device, all the appropriate information should be displayed at the same time and in the same window, making it easier to display materials.
· Podcast novels : A podcast novel (also known as a serialized audiobook or podcastaudio book) is a literary format that combines the concepts of a podcast and an audiobook. Like a traditional novel, a podcast novel is a work of long literary fiction; however, this form of novel is recorded into episodes that are delivered online over a period of time and in the end available as a complete work for download.
Our class is soon going to come up with our own Podcasts.
So stay tuned !!
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