charilaos lygidakis and sara rigon | bologna, italy

Podcasts are media broadcasts distributed over the Internet.

Advantages The value of podcasting is its content, which is targeted at people

that decide what to listen and choose when and how to do so.

Time saver: one can be catching up with a subject travelling to work,

in the gym and on holiday (while appearing to his/her partner to be

relaxing by listening to the mp3 player).

Can be generated and published extremely quickly and

inexpensively.

An Educational Tool

Course content dissemination, study support

Support for auditory learners (primary learning in 30% of learners is

auditory)

Field recording

Audio journaling, interviews, observations

Medical journal club

A panel of experts, discussing news and appraise published research

Enable doctors to stay current with literature updates

Challenge

penetration of the medium in groups of people who may

feel overwhelmed by informational technology

of college students who own iPods

use them every day

use mobiles as a primary clinical

information source

of US doctors own a smartphone

of US doctors own an iPad

But when a

podcast studio

is not possible,

all you need is a

mike and a

couple of

earphones!

Vasco da Gama Movement w w w . v d g m . e u

During WONCA Europe 2011, the Vasco da Gama

Movement gave us the opportunity to record

podcasts. In fact, we are planning to release them in

their site right after the conference.

But let me introduce another project…

united general practitioners 2.0

Richard Smith

Per Kallestrup

Adrian Moser

Anna Gurda-Duda

Bart Knottnerus

Francesca Manara

Freek Slooter

Karen Kjær Larsen

Lotte van Beers

Luisa Pettigrew

Magda Moszumanska

Raquel Gomez Bravo

Sabina Kooistra

Sandeep Geeranavar

Sara del Olmo Fernandez

What we’ve learned so far First reactions and feedback of the audience have been very

encouraging.

Many have replied commenting positively on the initiative.

Thanks to the feedback received, new topics have been

suggested for future episodes.

First problems: continuous urge for more active participation

of the audience and episode length.

Why Audio?

Less expensive to produce and distribute.

Audio discussions can be listened during other activities.

There is, however, the possibility to use both video and

audio.

COMMUNICATION TOOLS

(eg Skype)

free

RECORDING & EDITING TOOLS

(eg Audacity, Garageband)

free - €14,99

PUBLISHING & SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS

(eg iTunes, Odeo, Twitter)

free

A GOOD MIKE

€100-150

HOSTING

free - €70 per year

ONE-TIME SET-UP COSTS

ANNUAL COSTS €0 - 70

€0 - 150

Let’s take it a step further!

iTunes U Simple to distribute information to learners via iTunes Store.

Your institution creates its own iTunes U site. This is the single

home for all the digital content created or curated by educators.

They can download iTunes U audio and video offerings one at a

time or subscribe to entire courses and have new items download

automatically as soon as they become available.

Content available only to members of your educational

community (internal access) or to the world (public access).

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