Classroom III

Dave Winer has been thinking about the features of an ideal podcast player on his blog Scripting News.  As a classroom teacher that has struggled to teach my students how to use Garageband on Apples, I agree with Dave’s wonderful characteristics.  The recording feature is the trick.  All my students have USB flash drive MP3 players.  I load then podacast mp3 files on their devices so they can share them with their family and friends.  This task is time consuming at best.  So, to add RSS feeds to this idea device, wireless is a must.

Dave says:

Podcast player 

I’m still thinking about the ideal podcast player.

The features that matter most to me are:

1. Self-contained, untethered synchronization, much the same way a Blackberry gets email.

2. Read-write, two-way, should be able to record and connect with a publishing system for automatic upload and feed production.

3. Must be a platform, that is, people other than the manufacturer can add apps.

That’s it, those are the three main features that PPs need and don’t today have, imho.

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