The Boston Symphony Orchestra has launched its BSO Online Podcast, now available on the orchestra’s website and as a podcast.The podcast focuses on the BSO’s two-year Beethoven-Schoenberg project ‚Äî with audio and video clips that include video documentaries about the composers’ lives and historical contexts, plus overviews and analysis of the music to be performed […]

American Public Media, the nation’s second largest producer and distributor of public radio programs, has announded that it is expanding its podcast offerings. Beginning October 17, American Public Media is making the following full programs available as podcasts: Marketplace, Marketplace Money, Word for Word and American RadioWorks documentaries. The Splendid Table will be offered as […]

AEC Daily has introduced a series of educational podcasts, the AEC Daily Education podcast, aimed at the architecture, engineering and construction industry. The first episode looks at The Greening of White Goods (MP3). The podcast is an example of a sponsored corporate podcast. The podcast is part of the Whirlpool course, The Greening of ‘White […]

After a 6 month trial, the BBC are shelving the Ouch! podcast, a show that takes an irreverent look at disabilities. Fans of the show can sign a petition to help save the show. According to presenter Liz Carr, “The podcast has been a resounding success. It filled a gaping hole in disability entertainment… This […]

The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) is using iTunes U, Apple’s educational podcast service, to provide new content by McGraw-Hill Higher Education as part of a pilot program. The University is testing using McGraw-Hill’s rich-media educational content to engage students in new ways. This initiative also is giving students the opportunity to directly participate in the […]

Pamela Gay, a physics professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is the co-host of Astronomy Cast, a new podcast that takes a “weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.” “I’ve always been interested in popularizing astronomy and how to get more people interested in what I do,” said Gay, of Edwardsville. She is joined by Fraser […]

The National Association for Music Education announced a new podcast series, Notes from the Clef. The series will feature interviews with MENC members, MENC leaders, professional musicians, and individuals representing MENC‚Äôs many partners in the world of music education and music advocacy. The first podcast (MP3) features an interview with MENC president Lynn Brinckmeyer by […]

Santa Monica College has announced the launch of SMC on iTunes U, making a wide range of podcasts available to students and the public alike. SMC is among a growing number of colleges and universities turning to podcasting as an educational tool, including Stanford, UCLA and Duke in North Carolina. SMC on iTunes U features […]

Persian businesswoman Anousheh Ansari, co-founder and Chairman of Prodea Systems and the first female space tourist, has been blogging and even vlogging about her experiences in space. Her posts range from the trivial to the profound. Some of the most interesting insights she’s provided have been descriptions of how space explorers do tasks we take […]

Kansas State University announced today plans to create the largest eduational podcast library in the world. K-State, located in Manhattan, KS, plans to have all 6,000 class podcasts available to its students this year, making it by far the education realm’s largest podcasting implementation worldwide. The university is using Tegrity Campus 2.0, a content-management system […]