Nick Pernisco introduced podcasting as audio blogging. He wants to not focus on what a podcast is and how to do it, but rather uses of podcasting.

Great thing about using podcasting in the classroom is that the students are already used to using the technology as well as the hardware. He is a big proponent of using the technology that students are already using. It makes learning easier.

MP3 players are not toys; they are tools.

Ways to use podcasts in the classroom:

1. Recording your lecture - audio and/or video
2. Offer additional notes
3. Point to other podcasts
4. With disabled students - they can have the class notes without needing to use a "note taker" that might miss something

Showed a video produced by Santa Monica College about an iPod Pilot Program.

Tools needed to create a podcast can be very simple and relatively inexpensive.

What is the motivation for students to use podcasts in the classroom? Give students incentives to use them. For example, give assignments on Podcasts. This forces them to download it. Another example is to have them only site podcasts in their research.

Nick gave an example of using video podcasts with even young children participating and "producing" video for the web.