According to research firm Nielsen/NetRatings, 9.2 million web users recently downloaded an audio podcast.

BusinessWeek calls podcasting one of the Best Ideas of 2005.
'Podcast' declared Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary.

Grassroots Learning Project in London Gaurdian: A soundtrack for study.

The project is helping our community in a new world of grassroots media creation and new channels for sharing ideas. Check out our efforts and learn more via Corvallis Gazette-Times article. Below is our experimentation with community podcasting and themes include learning in individuals, organizations, and communities.

Podcasting allows you to listen to Internet audio whenever and wherever. A diverse selection of podcast subscriptions are available at this web site. You can subscribe to future podcasts and have them delivered to you via RSS. More on RSS here and podcasting here. See CNN's recent article if you're learning more about this grassroots movement, Tuning into new radio trend as well as NPR, ' PodCasting' to Music, Talk Fans Online.

Grassroots Learning Project brings you the following podcast channels:

• College of Education
• Video Podcasts of Doctoral Research Presentations
• Community Conversations
• Gazette-Times' Podcasting Project
• Oregon Entrepreneurial Spirit
• ENGAGE: Department of Philosophy

Download podcasts in the channels above by clicking on orange pod images . Get going with podcasting by installing an updated version of iTunes on your computer or other media player software. Check out podcasting links below to learn more about podcasting and getting started.

To subscribe to this web site for new podcasts, click on the RSS image:

  

We're hearing from people in our community wanting to participate and sharing ideas for podcasting. Great energy from our community in experimenting with the Internet and media. Please send comments and suggestions related to the project to Chester Bateman in the College of Education.

Podcasting Links:
All the World's A Podcast Tutorial from Wired Magazine
Podcasting in the Classroom
A Podcast Case Study at University of Michigan
From Wikipedia: Podcasting
Yahoo! Podcasts Beta
Web 2.0
Podcasts in iTunes
Odeo.com
Pew Internet and American Life Project: Podcasting catches on
Podcasting News
NPR Science Friday - Making Science Radioactive
Parents get together via iPod 'radio' USA Today