This one was a bugger. I know about podcasts, I even did one once for a class I took. They're a great teaching tool. In one of my earlier posts I wrote about an incredible learning support teacher we have that had her students create podcasts on each of the three branches of government. That wasn't my problem. My problem was finding some really good ones. If the links for the directories weren't dead, the indexes didn't allow searching. Another problem was that some podcasts can be very long and difficult to listen to if you don't have an iPod or MP3 player. Maybe that's why I have a poor attitude. I want to listen to some podcasts, but I can't justify the expense of the aforementioned technology and I'm just being a brat. Seriously, the best way for me to listen to a lot of the things I'd like to is to download it and plug a player into a dock and listen in the car. Ironically, that would keep me alert and awake while driving but put me right to sleep in front of a computer. (I have the same problem with webinars. It's pretty pathetic.)
On to the positive! I did find a pretty decent podcast directory, PodcastDirectory.com. It categorized things pretty well and I was able to find some good, quick, podcasts. My favorites are ones from Connected Life. They're really interesting and cover a lot of cool tech news without being too complicated. There are two segments on computer gaming that I know my son will love so finally I will have found something in this class that he will think is cool. I added their RSS feed to my Google Reader so I can keep up with the fun stuff.
Hopefully, I will get around to the podcast on The World is Flat. That's what I'd really like to listen to. Unfortunately, there are just too many time constraints at this time.
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