Often wonder how they come up with these names, so it is interesting to read a bit of the history behind things. Have never used podcasts before but have heard of them. I'm probably not as keen as it is audio as I am more a visual learner. Although I can see that this would be a great tool for missed lectures and the like. Did also have a look at TEDtalks and found this could be good if I ever had spare time to listen for an hour......I am one of those people who never watches the recorded programmes at home.
We have a young gentleman who comes into our Library regularly who cannot read and I often write down names of books he is interested in and he then gets his mother to load the audio book onto his laptop. We also have had a few audio books available for him. I am wondering if this may be an avenue worth looking into for him to access research material for class as he is a great learner if we can get the information in the right format for him
Hi Lyn, we've been exploring text-to-speech converters for 'auditory' learners. Different tools let you either copy/paste text into the converter and it will generate MP3 files. Others let you insert a URL or PDF file, and again they'll generate an MP3 or WAV file. We're promoting these to our uni students, as an alternative format (great while travelling etc), and as a supplememt to the text. Libraries can't do the conversion and distribute - but individuals can do so, for their own study purposes. Let me know if you'd like me to send you the URLs for an evaluation of some of these tools.
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