Podcasting proves to be a valuable way to express information, especially in an educational setting. In order to prepare yourself to do your own podcast you must first evaluate possible formats and how to keep your viewers interested in the information you are presenting. I reviewed several weekly podcast on itunes and took notes on the effectiveness of each.
SmartBoard Lessons is a weekly podcast that is presented by two people having a conversation and they pretty much know what the other one is going to say. In other words it is somewhat rehearsed. They give a lot of information between the two of them about how to SmartBoards are relevant in classrooms.
KidCast is a podcast that information is given through one person who speaks to the audience as a type of lecture and this I found was less effective in keeping it interesting for the viewer, so I would suggest a lot of visual stimulus if you have to podcast yourself solo.
MacBreak Weekly, on the other hand was definitely more successful in keeping my attention because there was more to listen to because you had more than two people discussing the topics. Therefore it encouraged my own thought on the matter discussed a little more than the previous ones viewed.
EdTechTalk is done weekly by interviewing different people on various subjects. This one would be a good podcast to subscribe to in order to receive information that you are interested from many sources. Listening to it once doesn't really let you get the feel for it because next week may be something you are even more interested in. So, this would be a good format for a weekly podcast where there are many viewpoints on the subjects you choose or if there are many experts.
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