Podcasting involves creating multimedia audio or video files and distributing them through RSS feeds for others to subscribe to and download or stream. The workshop discussed how podcasting works, potential uses in teaching economics, and provided examples of economics podcasts. Attendees participated in activities to learn how to create, publish, and subscribe to podcasts which could be used to distribute lecture recordings or engage students.

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7. What is podcasting? The Technical Podcasting entails multimedia content that is delivered via an RSS feed as a downloadable or streamed file

8. What is podcasting? The Functional The term podcast, like "radio", can mean both the content and the method of delivery. Podcasters' websites also may offer direct download of their files, but the subscription feed of automatically delivered new content is what distinguishes a podcast from a simple download or real-time streaming. Usually, the podcast features one type of "show" with new episodes either sporadically or at planned intervals such as daily, weekly, etc.

15. An educational context Providing a recording of your lecture Software that we are using to do this at the University of Bristol is called Camtasia. The rationale behind using this software is that it is very easy to use, easily produces lots of different output formats, but (assuming you want to invest the time) can produce some very sophisticated results.