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Grade School Podcasting: If They Can Do It, So Can You

By RR | October 5, 2005

Thanks to Will at Weblogg-ed for digging up this article.

Podcasts offer the audience pupils crave

Radio-style programmes, broadcast on the internet, are giving youngsters in East Lothian the opportunity to work on exciting, meaningful projects that help to improve their technical literacy.

Stephen O’Hear
Tuesday October 4, 2005
The Guardian

“Hi, Melissa here,” a young Scottish presenter announces, while a funky sounding guitar plays in the background. “This is MGS Podcast, live from Gig on the Grass.”

I’m listening to Musselburgh grammar school’s “podcast” coverage of a one-day music event held in the school’s grounds. This is radio reborn for the internet, and education has not missed the birth. The MGS Podcast project is thought to have produced the first ever UK school podcast and was recently short-listed for a New Statesman New Media award.

The word “podcasting” originates from the words iPod and broadcasting, and a podcast is best described as “radio” content, which a listener subscribes to via the internet. Once subscribed, the listener receives a new podcast as soon as it’s available, which can then be played on either a computer or portable MP3 player (it does not have to be an iPod), at a time that suits them. The ability to subscribe and the “on-demand” feature of podcasting, together with the rising popularity of MP3 players, are what makes it so attractive. For education, the potential is huge.

Complete article.

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