Thing # 22.

Today's thing has us looking at podcasts! I have spent the last hour or so listening to different science podcasts. Yes, I found them boring, funny, or beyond complicated! I did come across several that I liked, including the one I am going to share here. This podcast is about water-a fascinating chemical, according to these authors!

The podcast can be listened to here: Water podcast from Science Made Fun. This podcast was interesting, informative, and not too difficult to listen too. The man's british voice made listening without any pictures easier for me, although I am not sure if I could learn from a podcast since I am a visual learner! I put an RSS feed to my google reader for the Science Made Fun group so I can stay up to date if they listen any new podcasts.

I found the Educational Podcast Directory the easiest to use. This website was nice because the podcasts were broken down by subject so I could just click on science and narrow my search further within that group. The website was easy to move through and the podcasts opened and loaded quickly which is nice. I found that some of the science ones were just a bit too long, but the group I subscribed to theirs were to the point but informative.

I am not daring or creative enough to ever create my own podcast. I also have a problem listening to something that doesn't have anything for my eyes to do, perhaps this is why I struggle just listening to talk radio. So I am not creating my own podcast, but I did find several podcasts I am going to try to listen to regularly, such as "The Week in Science" podcasts that update each week. I will also be adding this to my google reader.

As for you that create a podcast, good luck and I will be listening!