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The term podcast is made up of ‘pod’ as in ‘iPod’ and ‘cast’ as in broadcast.
Podcasts are audio or video files that are published on the Web and sent free to subscribers who download them to play on an MP3 player, laptop or computer.
Podcasts are designed to be listened to at a time that suits the listener, ‘just in time’.
Podcasts are different to streamed audio and can be automatically downloaded to a computer (subscribed) and retrieved at a a later date.
Podcasting = media (MP3 files) + method of downloading (XML or RSS feeds)
Janine Bowes has a great entry on Podcasting on her Blog:
Tapping into social netwroking for e-learning - Introduction to Podcasting
and
TOOLS FOR THE TEKS: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
with links to
“Podcasts are audio or video files that are published on the Web and sent free to subscribers who download them to play on an MP3 player, laptop or computer.”
nowdays,
podcast = audio
vodcast = video