Thing 20

Include in your post the name of at least one podcast to which you subscribed. Describe your experience using the various search tools. Which do you prefer and why?


I loved this "thing". I have an ipod and the idea that I can listen to these on my 1/2 hour drive to and from work is enticing. The variety of podcasts is amazing! I downloaded two of them, Grammar Girl, and Smartboard Lessons (from Canada). I discusses my reasons for liking Grammar Girl in my last posting (Thing 19). Our school is about to embark on a huge purchase of Smart Board Technology (if I can get my technology application filled out this weekend -- deadline Dec. 8). The program I downloaded is from Canada and received many favorable reviews -- Canada is high on Smart Board Technology. Anyway, I think it would be helpful for me to get some tips from these educators. There are 150 podcasts! They're 45 minutes each -- so that's a hugh investment of my time, but a good investment as a future user of this expensive technology.

I also love to listen to Public Radio and was happy to see so many of my favorite series are available for downloading. I didn't download these, but I will be listening. I imagine it will take up some space on my ipod -- now I know why I should have invested in one with a larger memory capacity.

By the way, I have been doing most of my work in this course on my daughter's computer. She already had an ipod account so the podcasts are on her account just in case you're looking for an account with my e-mail address. I will probably transfer them to another computer at a later date.

I liked using the Itunes store. I tried to save on my bloglines account, but it was offline because the application was being serviced for an 18 hour period. I thought it would be more efficient to keep my news feeds and my podcast feeds in the same storage area. I'll get back to bloglines and perhaps try again, because I still have to get back and finish up Thing 15 as I promised.