Thing 21 - Podcasts

For Thing 21, listen to a few library podcasts, and write about them in your blog. How was the audio quality? Were they interesting enough to make you want to subscribe to them? What sorts of topics did they cover


I did a podcast for a course at UNT about the new teen center called "The Studio" at the Arlington Public Library. It was a fun way to promote this new area of the library.

Podcasts if done well can be a great way to give mini lessons to the students or faculty about a certain topic or area of interest. Some of the podcasts I listened to appeared to be for a class assignment and the audio was amaturish (if there is such a word) - scratchy, the sound wasn't of equal quality, etc. However, the students were learning to do Podcasting. Brain Wave and RPN the Radio Public Network were well done professional productions and were a pleasure to listen to.

The topics varied from podcast to podcast, however it could be used for a student assignment, promoting a topic or cause such as an area of the library, and book talks were also done on some of the podcasts. Podcasts could be used in a variety of ways both informational, educational, and for pleasure. Some of the sites such as RPN or Brain Waive would be excellent source to subscribe to or at lease listen to regularly.