What is a Podcast?
Podcasting lets you automatically receive the latest episode of your chosen programme as soon as it’s available. With our current range of audio podcasts, you can take your favourite radio programmes with you on the move and listen wherever and whenever you like. You can “subscribe” to receive a podcast, rather like you might subscribe to a magazine and get it delivered each week. All of the BBC’s podcasts are free, and you can stop receiving the files at any time. If you’d rather not subscribe, you can download episodes of a podcast series individually. In order to subscribe for a podcast, you need an internet connection and a piece of podcast software which is usually available free of charge. Once you have installed this software, it will check the BBC for new episodes of your chosen podcast series and automatically download new episodes for you. You can then listen to podcast episodes on your computer, or transfer them to a portable device, such as an mp3 player.
Podcasts are short radio- or TV-style shows that you can download from the Internet using Podcast software. You can then play them on your computer or add them to a suitable iPod compatible personal playback device. In the case of Revise on the Move, to get the most out of the Podcasts, you need an iPod compatible personal playback device with a viewing screen that can play MP4 files, e.g. an iPod or PC/Mac.
A Podcast is an audio broadcast that is available on the Internet. A podcast can be played directly from a website, or easily downloaded to a computer or to a personal audio player such as an ipod or mp3 player. Podcasts can be music, audio magazines, radio programmes, educational material and much more. Once they are downloaded they can be listened to at any time, and as often as you want. 5 Reasons for having podcasts: • Podcasts make your information accessible to blind and visually impaired people, and therefore help you meet the requirements of UK disability legislation, the Disability Discrimination Act. • They appeal to, and reach, young people so you could reach a larger audience. • Podcasts enable people who are too busy to read your documents to access them whilst travelling etc. • They save paper and therefore reduce your environmental impact. • There is a lower production cost, compared to other printing and audio options, as you do not need to produce and distribute multip
A subscription to a media file. Specifically, a podcast is an audio or video file transmitted over the internet and enclosed inside an “RSS” or “XML” file. RSS and XML allow users to subscribe to these audio and video files, and be automatically notified when new files are available. They’re really easy to use, and though the standard was invented only 2 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people enjoy podcasts every day.
