I am an avid consumer of podcasts - I have my weekly NPR shows - but also my podcasts from Science Magazine, Nature Magazine, NYT Science, etc. But the science podcasts would not be suitable for my class. They are too broad, but I would hope that I could encourage my students to download some of them and listen even outside of class.
This week I had lunch with a student who is very interested in the course I am developing "Biology and Tech Innovation". He mentioned that he was a member of a group called the Bioneers. I decided to look up if this group had a podcast, and it turns out that they actually do.
iTunes; Bioneers: " Bioneers brings bold innovators with bold breakthrough solution to the airwaves with their eight annual radio series. Bioneers: revolution from the Heart of Nature airs in more than 250 cities in the US, Canada, Australia and Ireland and is free to all stations, distributed by WFMT radio networks".
You can download the podcast via iTunes and or Yahoo. Apparently the podcast were only started in July 2010 and it looks like they post 4 new episodes per month.
I will not require my students to all the podcasts (it looks like they are all about 30 minutes long - which is probably about 15 minutes too long). But some of the topics would fit well in some of my modules. For instance, there is a "Planting Buildings" episodes which fits with my architecture module and I could use it as one of the content resources. I may let the students know what they can skip - I found the first 3.5 minutes a little too preachy, so I would suggest the student skip to a certain minute mark.
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