Subject Special on Humanities

Our latest subject special podcast, on humanities, has now been published in our RSS feed and included in our iTunes listing.

In this podcast, we focus on a selection of podcasts about history, geography and archaeology. We feature some of the podcasts that are listed in the humanities category of our Podcast Directory for Educators.

We present an illustrate range of the kind of topics that are listed. In this podcast these include - an insight into New Orleans, visiting a game reserve in South Africa, revision for history exams, tales from World War II with a former soldier, some archaeology news and geographical items.

The six podcast channels featured are:

• A Different Reality
• Tips for Travellers
• I Love History
• Private Jim
• Stone Pages Podcast
• Very Spatial

If you know of other good quality podcasts that would be ideal for use with children and young people, then do please let us know or submit details about the podcast. We are keen to showcase and promote educational podcasts from around the world.

Our theme tune is, as always, "Boogie for Jools" from logicalaudiomusic.com.

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Podcasting to mobiles

Is providing educational podcasts via mobile phones the next evolutionary step in podcasting?

The advent of 3G and 4G mobile phone networks introduces broadband capability to mobile phones. With established international network infrastructure and an ever increasing consumer base worldwide, this could really become another growth area for educational podcasting.

Most 3G+ mobile phones already contain the technology infrastructure not only to receive and play audio - but also video too. Currently there are a few applications that can be installed onto a mobile phone and used to download and play podcasts. However, there an increasing number of services are emerging that offeri the facility to stream podacsts to mobile phones.

Could this is really the dawn of a new digital age where the evolving technologies are finaly brought together to provide learning anytime, anywhere?

Watch this space!

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The wonder of science and nature

In our latest podcast, entitled "Subject special: Science", we focus on a range of podcasts ranging from astronomy to biology, physics to medicine from the collection listed in the mathematics and science category of our Podcast Directory for Educators.

We illustrate some of the wide range of science topics that are contained in the science podcast channels. Some of the podcasts we feature are more suitable for post-16 students. In our podcast we make reference to an astronomy special, healthy living, Avian bird flu, a twist to Einstein's theory of relativity and pathophysiology.

The six podcast channels featured are:

• Astronomy a Go Go!
• Beyond Organic
  
• RSPB Bird Notes
  
• Science @ NASA
  
• Living on Earth
  
• Lectures on Pathophysiology

In our directory you will find links to the websites for each podcaster, their RSS feed and any iTunes listing. Our latest podcast is also be included in the iTunes podcast directory - "Podcasts for educators".

If you know of other good quality podcasts on science that would be ideal for use with children and young people, then do please let us know or submit details about the podcast. We are always keen to showcase and promote educational podcasts from around the world.

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