Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Thing 20 -- Subscribing to Podcasts

In addition to the other podcasts that I already enjoy, I subscribed to a podcast called, "This American Life" upon the recommendation of one of my students who told me last year, "You would love this!" I look forward to listening to them and seeing how well Justin knows me.

I've had an iPod for several years and am already comfortable with searching iTunes for interesting podcasts. I did spend some time on the "Educational Podcast Network" and "Podcast Alley" -- both seem to work really well for me. My preference is probably the iTunes, but only because I already have lots of experience with it. As we all know, it's always easy to stick with what we know. Therefore, I will make an effort to try out the other search tools -- I will also download a podcast on my Google account which, I assume, I could pull-up and listen to at work on my prep hour or play for students.

I do have a question: Are all of the podcasts on iTunes also searchable on the other two sites? Also...how does one go about getting a podcast on iTunes?

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  1. iTunes does not include all the podcasts that are available on the other sites. That's why you might want to use them sometimes. If you find a podcast somewhere other than through iTunes and want to subscribe using iTunes, go to the Advanced menu and select Subscribe to Podcast, and then paste in the URL of the podcast you found.

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