Who produces podcasts and who is the audience?

Some examples:

• Frankenstein podcast from Booth Library, EIU.

Web URL: http://www.library.eiu.edu/exhibits/frankenstein/podcast/

• iCube podcasts for Psychology, David Miller, University of Connecticut

Podcast: http://web.uconn.edu/millerd/iCube_UConn.xml

Web URL: http://icube.uconn.edu/iCube.html

• WillowWeb: a kid-produced (grades K-5) podcast site

Podcast: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioWillowWeb

Web URL: http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/

A good directory of educational podcasts is the Educational Podcast Network. (http://www.epnweb.org/). This site provides a listing of podcasts according to the target audience.

We will produce a podcast describing these unique sites as a way to provide some examples of the diverse array of educational podcasts that are available for various audiences.

Podcast introduction script:

Podcasts can be produced by anyone. In this podcast we are going to illustrate the diversity of podcast producers...including young children, librarians, teaching faculty, and university administrators.

Frankenstein project

Radiowillowweb

Icube

If you’d like to hear more examples, a good directory of educational podcasts is the Educational Podcast Network. (http://www.epnweb.org/). This site provides a listing of podcasts according to the target audience.

Susan Manning

Frankenstein podcast script:

Booth Library's Frankenstein project is somewhat unusual both in its producers and its intended audience. The project consists of an unabridged reading of Mary Shelley's famous novel by EIU faculty members and administrators as well as local community members. Over twenty-five readers volunteered to read a chapter of the novel for a podcast which accompanied Booth Library's Frankenstein exhibition and EIU's selection of Frankenstein as the One Book, One University title for Fall 2005. The complete podcast consists of over six hours of content. The primary audience is undergraduate students at EIU, although the podcast is open to all who wish to subscribe.

David Bell