Week 9: Podcasts

Podcasts are very user-friendly and useful tools to entertain and inform. My experience with them came from downloading onto my iPod several Civil War--related guided tours from iTunes. These were free of charge and produced by CivilWarTraveler.com. The beauty is that now I can walk the Gaines' Mill battlefield while listening to a park historian describe the fighting that took place there in June 1862. In terms of the VHS, it seems like the perfect tool to use for guided tours of new exhibitions. A podcast could effectively serve as a personal gallery walk. The VHS web site could have a podcast page where interested patrons could very easily download onto their computers and then onto their device a tour.

Now that we are at the end of "23 Things," I would like to say how useful this excercise has been for me personally. I did not know of most of the web 2.0 applications that are out there. In many ways I now look at the internet in a different way. Now I see it as something I can control a little bit more and that can supply me with the information I want in ways that I want it.