Lesson 14 - Podcasting

I listened to a library podcast from Cornell University about their chimes, hoping to hear them play; however, the podcast was rather long, so I never did hear them. There seem to be several steps towards getting to an interesting podcast thru this lesson. I did listen to a teenager talk about wishing there were more days in the month of February, on a Boulder Colorado high school library website. That was kind of fun, but not very informative... Finally, through the Learn Out Loud link, I found the American Experience podcast and subscribed to that feed on my Google Reader website, as that is one of my favorite tv shows. I don't know that I will ever listen to it on the computer, but I may refer to it to find a show to order from the library on DVD.
I have no experience with creating podcasts; I have periodically listened to them on my computer at home thru the NPR website. I really do not like using earbuds, so if speakers are not available to me or appropriate for the site I am at, I will probably not pursue podcasts. Many of our patrons are now users of earbuds, so I can imagine that podcasts might have heavy usage at our libraries. Of course, the issue is always being able to provide them enough time on the computers.