#22 - Podcasts

Podcasts offer a great way to keep up-to-date in a subject area, listen to a radio broadcast later (when your child never stops talking and you can't hear it originally - or when you are doing something else) or even to attend a lecture or a conference. A chat or chat log is not as effective especially if everyone is shouting out their two cents and you can't keep track of what the speaker is saying. Also, there's a lot of information conveyed in the voice and the body and the way something is not said, as well. Ideally, in this situation, the podcast would be accompained by visual aids and handout-type materials as welll as a transcript. Even meetings like Weight Watchers could be done in podcasts - there's a lot of potential for information dissemination here!