Handheld Learning - learning with mobile and ubiquitous technologies

For all you bloggers using the brilliant and free Wordpress that are up for a spot of podcasting (see Andy Ramsdens excellent new article!) you may be interested to know that there's a fab new plug-in now available called Podpress that integrates podcasting into your Wordpress blogging environment.

Features:

• Full featured and automatic iTunes feed generation
• Auto Generation of enclosure tag
• Makes adding a Podcast to a Post very simple
• View MP3 Files ID3 tags when your Posting, and copy ID3 data to the Post title and content.
• Control over where the player will display within your post.
• Support for various formats, including Video Podcasting
• Automatic Media player for MP3, MP4, MOV, FLV, and more, with inline and Popup Window support.
• Preview of what your Podcast will look like on iTunes
• Easy way to link to your podcast within iTunes

More info: http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress

nice

Some hosted blogs providers include a podcast option (well Blog City do).

I'd suggest there are considerable benefits of associating the podcast with other communication software. For instance, by including the podcast with a Blog then you can use the podcast to hook interest, direct them back to the blog for more info / widen the scope of the information being provided, and then encourage comments / feedback.

An example is ... http://blackboard.blog-city.com/fireside_chat_23rd_june_06.htm

So people can leave comments, while information can be drip fed from hte podcast to the blog - including links etc.,

It will be very interesting when the VLEs start to deliver their podcast modules/building blocks, then it will open up the use of other communication tools (discussion boards) and collaborative tools (wikis). Very simple technologies, effectively deployed, and the effective is down to learning design.