This document discusses the benefits and history of podcasting as a new medium for education. It outlines how podcasts can deliver content freely without constraints of place, allow for multiple voices and sensory experiences, and give present-day relevance to course material. Podcasts also provide historians alternative forms of expression beyond writing and force consideration of issues like presentation, narrative, and audience. The document then lists topics that various podcasts cover, such as history, memory, analysis, and storytelling, and concludes with lessons podcasts can teach like storytelling, authenticity, experimentation, simplicity, and relevance.

1. HEARING
HISTORY
P O D C A S T I N G A S A N E W M E D I U M

2. PODCASTING HISTORY
Why Use and/or Create Podcasts?
• Podcasts can deliver content for listening on
a mobile device, freeing the educator and
learner from the constraints of place.
• Allows for multiple voices and bringing
humanities alive through sound.
• Give present-day relevance to course
material.
• Allows for a more sensory experience with
material.
• Historians can create podcasts as alternative
forms of intellectual expression beyond
writing texts.
• Creating podcasts forces us to think of issues
of presentation, narrative, audience, and
knowledge for the “theater of the mind.”

3. HISTORY AND MEMORY
THE LONG SHADOW OF THE PLANTATION
HOW A WEIGHTED PAST CREATES A COMPLICATED
PRESENT

4. THEATER OF THE MIND
Analysis, Parapraxis,
Elvis

5. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Puerto Rico

6. STORYTELLING
The Reddest of the
Blacks

7. WHAT CAN PODCASTS TEACH US?
• Storytelling
• Authenticity and
vulnerability
• Experimentation
• Simplicity
• Relevance