What is Podcasting?

A couple years ago our TRT announced that we could podcast. It sounded so exciting until I realized that he basically meant record our voices. I have used audacity with all of my classes and it is for foreign language an extremely useful tool. It is only recently however, that I really understood the idea of podcasting. I began using a podcast called notesinspanish.com where a Spanish couple talks on different themes to different language levels. This is a great resource for me as a teacher, and really makes incoorporating the podcast into a lesson more realistic. It isn't just a speaking sample anymore, it is an authentic tool for learning.