Podcasting is yet another way to communicate for people. As most Web tools do, it helps reshape the way we are able to communicate by long-distance. In a classroom, it could be a way to form a sort of fail-safe in case a student cannot attend class. Perhaps it is illness that prevents the student from attending class, so they log onto and form a podcast session with their teacher (obviously concerning more severe cases of illness such as vomiting, this will not be mandatory, but a choice of the students'). Or even a simple unfortunate chain of events such as no transportation to class, the student can still participate in the lesson via podcast.
As I said, podcasting is another way to communicate long-distance in case physical meeting is not possible. Just like VoiceThread and even common websites like Facetime, Skype, or Google Plus. It is possible for teachers to even record their lessons or important instructions and save them as music files for free download for students. I think anyone would agree with the fact that having more ways to study would be beneficial to any students.
I use my iPod primarily for listening to music, but as I just suggested, perhaps using the Voice Memo application, we could email our lesson and information to any students who require it. I also know a vital way to teach a new language to students - have them learn songs of different languages. Everyone could listen to and learn a song on my iPod and then learn the words, paving the way to learn the language.The Voice Memo will save the breath and time of having to try to reteach a lesson as well.
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