This note concerns my use of podcasts as a learning tool in economics during academic year 2004-05 at Lancaster University Management School. A podcast is an audio clip that is broadcast over the internet and which may be listened to at a computer or on an MP3 player (such as an iPOD).
To create the podcasts I recorded a series of three minute clips based on topics in my final year undergraduate human resource economics course. These were recorded as wave files using the windows sound recorder and then converted to mp3 files using dBpowerAMP Music Converter (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm). The files were then uploaded onto an weblog account freely hosted by blogger (http://www.blogger.com/start) one each week. The account was given RSS syndication using the FeedBurner service (http://www.feedburner.com). Students were then given the web address for the RSS feed.
