In class, our assignment was to find video and podcasts which will help to teach something required from Massachusetts Frameworks. For days I searched YouTube, TeacherTube, Podcast Alley, iTunes, and VoiceThread for a good selection of information. The more I searched, the vaguer the difference between videos and podcasts became. Wikipedia describes a podcast “ like a radio program except people can download a podcast to a portable media player (such as an iPod or other mp3 player) and listen to it at their convenience. Podcasts can have only sound or sound and video. A video podcast is sometimes called a vidcast. A podcast with sound and pictures (but not moving) is called an enhanced podcast. (Wikipedia- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast)” and for videos they use this description “The term video (from Latin: "I see") commonly refers to several storage formats for moving eye pictures). These definitions confused me further until I received clarification from our instructor. “If the images are stationary and the audio is informational and it calls itself a podcast than count it as a podcast. If the images are moving, it is a video. Video podcasts sometimes straddle the line - if the criteria above don't work - you can just pick!” Armed with that clarification I embarked on reacquainted myself with what is available on the World Wide Web.
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