As I discussed in the most recent page posted on my blog titled "Podcasts" this week's session was one of the most unique and one of my favourite sessions of this semester. We investigated the role that podcasts can play in sharing audio clips with other digital citizens. The web tool that I decided to use to share my short audio clip or podcast using SoundCloud. This was a really easy tool to record and share audio either privately or publically online. Once the clip is created, if the public sharing option is selected, it can be shared on various social media sites and can also be embedded on different websites, which is what I did on my blog! These types of tools allows the creator an easy way to share thoughts and information quickly in a way that I find builds a better connection than text due to the ability to show emotion and emphasis through changing voice tone. It is also fun to just change it up once in a while!
Embed.ly, (CC), 2014. Retrieved from: http://embed.ly/embed/features/provider/soundcloud
Hodgkins, K., (CC), 2012. Retrieved from: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/20/third-party-podcast-apps-return-to-desktop-itunes-search/
Tools such as SoundCloud and other similar tools such as Muziboo and RecordMP3 can be a great tool in building knowledge. All of these audio sharing tools as well as podcasts can be a fun and convinient way to find a topic of your choice and learn about it. I listen to different podcasts frequently by downloading them from iTunes and playing them back in my car when I am commuting. Obviously this gives an additional opportunity to build knowledge in a time when reading or other methods of learning are clearly not possible.
These tools are completely different from other collaborative and communication tools that I have used before as most other tools are purely text web tools. This alone allows a completely different communication method and an entirely different experience.
SoundCloud would fit into my PLE diagram under "create", "connect" and "convenience", making it one of the unique tools to fit under all aspects of my PLE. Tools that allow you to create and connect with convenience are tools that I will definitely seriously consider using in the future.
Following the rules and regulations that govern the use of audio recording is no different than text, as they both require proper citation when using someone else's property. This week we also added a creative copyright to our blog which you can see at the very bottom of my blog in the footer. This is an important feature in protecting your materials and ensuring that it is used in ways deemed appropriate by the creator.
In my Feedly this week I found an article that was closely related to the tools we investigated this week. The website I found has a list of the Top 100 Podcasts with many different genres, hopefully one that interests you!
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