Podcasting and VODcasting: A White Paper - Unit 3

Meng, P. (2005). Podcasting and VODcasting: A white paper. University of Missouri IAT Services, March.

Peter Meng provides an in-depth outline of Podcasting and VODcasting. Beginning with a definition of each of the methods of digital recording and distribution, Meng then moves on to describe the pros and cons, applications and future of both of these methods.


Meng also gives precise instructions on how to create and use both Podcasts and VODcasts. This is great information for those who will actually put these methods into practice, yet I would have been more interested in sources for bringing this into a secondary classroom, not so much at the university level.

While this is interesting information, at the current time this was written, these two methods of digital communication had only been around for about 6 months. I believe these technologies have become more widely used and understood in the general public, yet they still seem a bit difficult to use in secondary classrooms, except to simply experience.

I would love to be able to create these with my students, but given my current technological skills, it seems more likely that my students would be the ones showing me how to do this, than me teaching them.