Week 10: Podcasts and Videos

I had a play with both of these this week. As I was using the work computer I didn't like to download any software so could only look at podcasts that didn't require additional downloads. I set up an Odeo account and was able to subscribe to a podcast by Nancy Pearl an American librarian on whom the library action figure is based: http://www.mcphee.com/items/11247.html
She presents a show called Book Lust where she interviews authors and I now have access to several of the most recent on my blog.

YouTube is fab. I could spend hours looking at all the esoteric fragments from my childhood and beyond which had faded in the mists of memory. But here they were again vivid and slightly cheesy ! I embedded a video showing the opening song to an Australian TV show called Adventure Island which I remember racing home to watch after school. Of course there are also myriad educational possibilities for this technology! It could be very useful in sharing instructional information across the globe.