It's an easy way to receive the media you want to your personal computer or portable device, automatically.A podcast is a media file which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers. Like 'radio', it can mean both the content and the method of syndication. The latter may also be termed podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster. The term "podcast" is a portmanteau of the name of Apple's portable music player, the iPod, and boradcast; a pod refers to a container of some sort and the idea of broadcasting to a container or pod correctly describes the process of podcasting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
Education and Podcasting
Podcasts enable students and teachers to share information with anyone anytime. If a student is absent, she can download the podcast of the recorded lesson. It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to communicate curriculum, assignments and other information with parents and the community. Teachers can record book talks, vocabulary or foreign language lessons, international pen pal letters (podcast pals!), music performance, interviews, debates. Podcasting can be a publishing tool for student oral presentations. Video podcasts can be used in all these ways as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_of_podcasting#Education_.26_Academia
Comment: Podcasting is again another advancement in the technology for teaching phenomena! Lessons can be recorded and be made available for download online. This is really interesting, and an unknown domain for me, so as a teacher I feel it necessary to do more research in this area.
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