I raised the recent discussion on podcast origins with members of the
Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes Special Interest Group and, as
anticipated, an additional view emerged. One colleague, Andrew
Middleton, of Sheffield Hallam, commented as follows:

“I am fairly sure it was Ben Hammersley in the Guardian who coined
the term in this article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/feb/12/broadcasting.digitalmedia

I seem to remember calling it audio blogging for quite a while - at
least a month! And I think the original association was with the iPod
and subsequently people decided that wasn't helpful and the Programme On
Demand idea emerged. I wasn't aware of the '2001' film connection”. 

Should anyone wish to explore further the activities of the PPP SIG,
which I established in 2008 with colleagues from Hertfordshire, SHU,
Bath, Wolverhampton, and Mid-Cheshire College, with the help of funding
from the HEA Pathfinder Extension Project programme, the wiki can be
found at http://podcastingforpp.pbwiki.com/FrontPage 

We are a group of educational developers, academics, learning
technologists and would welcome new members and practitioners. If,
having looked at the PPP wiki, you’d like to join us or come along to
our next regional event, probably at the University of Leicester, please
contact Carol Comer at [log in to unmask] 

Jethro


Jethro Newton
Professor of Higher Education
Dean of Learning and Teaching
University of Chester
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Chester
CH1 4BJ
 
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>>> "Foster, Ed" <[log in to unmask]> 11/12/08 11:10 am >>>
I can't comment on the protocols for referencing, but I think Pauline's
source of the name for a podcast isn't quite right.  I think the word
'podcast' comes from merging 'ipod' and 'broadcast', some podcasters
have tried to come up with alternative words as they don't like to have
to reference a single product when describing what they do.  The acronym
might also have come from people trying to post-hoc re-write the name.
 
Whilst I'm being a right trainspotter, the name ipod came from a
marketer who thought that the original ipod looked like a piece of kit
from '2001: a Space Obyssey' called a pod.  At the time, Apple were
monkeying around with the name i before the Mac (the iMac was originally
going to be called the internetMac) and 'i' and 'pod' were cleverly put
together (better than podi anyway)
 
The computer HAL from 2001 is apparently named because it's one letter
on from IBM.  
 
About this point I REALLY think I ought to be getting back to work
 
Ed
 

Ed Foster, Study Support Co-ordinator, Nottingham Trent University, (t)
0115 848 8203

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Trafford, Sian
Sent: 12 November 2008 10:28
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Subject: Re: Referencing a podcast



Hi All

 

Thanks for your views and tips - it has been a very useful discussion
and I have saved some really good websites as favourites! 

 

I'm not sure what kind of podcasts the student was enquiring about as
the query came through a colleague, but I must admit I was assuming it
would be BBC or similar podcasts rather than academic podcasts, but I
might be wrong. 

 

I am also indebted to Pauline Ridley for the possible origin of
'pod'cast (programme on demand)!

 

Many thanks to you all

 

Sian

 

Siân Trafford 
Learner Support Co-ordinator 
School of Social Sciences 
Nottingham Trent University 
Burton Street

Nottingham  NG1 4BU
Tel: +44 (0)115 848 5527 
Email: [log in to unmask] 

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