节目资讯
刊物:生活知识家
日期:2009-03-19
难易度:Medium
关键字:download, get the ball rolling, access, on the go,
Hi, friends.
Welcome back to part two of today’s lesson.
If you own an MP3 player and haven’t yet downloaded a podcast,
you are missing out on a world of entertainment and education on the go.
That’s what makes MP3 players great.
You can listen to your podcasts while commuting to school or work, while you’re
waiting in line at a bus stop or ticket counter.
Now a very helpful word for this lesson is the verb:
access,
as in:
You can access the Internet with this cell phone.
The next is the idiom:
on the go.
Let’s drive to school and buy some sandwiches we can eat on the go.
Let’s go now to the reading.
We’re still on page thirty-five,
but now we’re on line seventeen.
Please follow along in your magazines.
Podcasting Power.
Everybody from DJs to language teachers became podcasters - people who make
podcasts.
Listen to a podcast.
Podcasts range from professional news broadcasts to homemade comedy shows.
Accessing the content is easy.
Visit a website that offers podcasts,
or download and install on your computer a software program that collects
podcasts automatically.
Download individual episodes, or subscribe to a certain podcast program via its
RSS feed.
With RSS technology, new episodes are automatically downloaded to your computer.
Transfer them to an MP3 player, and listen on the go.
Welcome back, friends.
We’re here today talking about podcasting power,
and how you can download these podcasts right to your computers or MP3 players
and enjoy them for... forever.
And it looks like there are many different kinds of podcasters.
And a podcaster is a person who produces podcasts.
Well, I think it’s kind of like blogging.
Just about anybody can do it.
There’s just a few things you need,
a little bit of equipment we’ll tell you about later.
But basically anybody from a professional DJ to a language teacher can become a
podcaster.
Nowlet’s stop there for a minute on that word:
DJ.
Sometimes we use that as a boy’s name.
But here we’re actually talking about something different, aren’t we, Chelsea?
We are.
Let’s break that down into two parts.
DJ stands for disc jockey.
Now a disk is something that is circular in shape.
And a jockey is a person who operates a certain machine.
Now if you go back to the ”disk” word, we know that records and CDs are
circular.
And a jockey is a person who works those records and CDs.
So we see disk jockey sometimes in radio stations.
And they’re the one who control the music.
And you hear their voice on the radio too.
So just as a video jockey controls or guides the movement of the videos on a MTV
program,
you have a disc jockey controlling the movement and the order of the songs on a
radio program.
Right.
And you might see some of these disk jockeys in clubs or in places where people
like to dance,
because the popular ones, the professional ones do this for a living,
and they play music that people can dance too.
Well, everybody from DJs to language teachers can become podcaster...
podcasters,
people who make podcasts.
So if you make a podcast, you will be called a podcaster.
OK.
And podcasts range from professional news broadcasts all the way to music
broadcasts, comedy broadcasts.
Uh, there’s a... a wide spectrum of the kinds of podcasts you can have.
And the good news is that accessing the content is very easy.
Accessing is a verb that we use a lot.
What does the word accessing mean, Rachel?
Well, if you access something, then you get a hold of it; you enter it; you use
it.
So here we are accessing the content.
It just means you’re getting online and you’re able to download it very quickly.
Another thing we should mention is that most podcasts are free.
I think that’s why I like them so much because I don’t have to pay for them.
Yes, that’s a very good aspect of podcasts.
Anybody can get them, access them easily,
and you usually don’t have to pay any money for them.
Well, our text gives us lots of helpful hints on how to get these podcasts on
our MP3 player.
And what they say we can do is visit the website that offers the podcasts,
or download and install on our computers a software program that collects the
podcasts automatically.
One thing we should make note of here is you don’t actually have to have an MP3
player to listen to a lot of these podcasts.
Some of them are available on the websites,
and you can just listen to them as you’re working on your computer.
Yeah.
I... I really like the... the feature of being able to download individual
episodes or individual shows.
You don’t have to download the entire season of an episode.
You can just pick and choose which episodes you like.
And there’s a very special technology that our article talks about,
that can help you download these individual episodes or subscribe to certain
podcasts.
And that is called an RSS feed,
which is a special type of technology that allows you to subscribe to any number
of podcasts,
and it automatically updates it for you.
Right.
It kind of does the work for you.
It feeds the podcasts into your computer and then you can put them onto your MP3
player.
I like this because it’s automatic.
And I don’t have to do a lot of work.
I just know if I really like a podcast every week or every month or whenever
it’s offered, I will get it through the RSS feed.
Wow, we have some more to learn about this.
Let’s learn some more information about RSS.
RSS is a kind of technology that allows you to ”subscribe” to frequently updated
websites like blogs, podcasts or news sites - automatically.
With RSS, there’s no need to check each site, every time you log on.
Subscribe to the RSS feed by simply adding it to your Internet browser’s
”favorites”.
Or, you can use a program like Google Reader.
That’s the magic of RSS.
So with RSS technology, you’re able to automatically download these podcast
episodes onto your computer.
And then you can download them onto your iPod or any MP3 player and listen to
them on the go.
That sounds too easy.
And I think I’ll start doing it.
Let’s take a look at that phrase:
on the go.
If you’re on the go, you’re constantly in activity.
So if you do something on the go, you do it as you’re going, as your moving and
being active.
And that’s actually how I listen to my podcast.
I don’t just sit on my couch and turn on my iPod.
I listen when I walk.
I listen when I’m on the bus.
I listen when I’m... on the MRT or when I’m buying groceries.
And probably people think I’m not very social,
but that’s my time to listen to my podcast.
Ha... yes.
I... I tend to listen to my podcast when I’m making a long walk, if I’m walking
to the store also.
It’s a good time for me to listen to them.
Well, after learning so much information about podcasts today,
I am very motivated to go out and download some podcasts so I can listen to them
while I’m on the go and while I’m staying active.
I like to run,
so maybe that would be a good way for me to spend my time running as listening
to a podcast.
Well, right now we’re going to go to the Chat Room.
Enjoy that.
And we’ll see you right back here tomorrow at Studio Classroom.
Hi, friends.
Welcome to the Chat Room.
Today we’d like to welcome Linda to the Chat Room.
Hi, Linda.
Hi, Ken.
Hi, everyone.
It’s nice to be here with you all today.
So Linda, do you podcast?
Are you kidding?
I am very technologically challenged.
Technologically challenged?
Yes. That means that I have a hard time understanding how to use technology.
The original phrase is physically challenged,
and it means to have a physical disability.
I see.
(Chinese).
But I do want to tell you listeners about videocasting which I just learned
about.
Videocasting?
Now podcasting is audio files, right?
Right.
So is videocasting downloading videos and onto your iPod?
Yes. Can you believe it?
There is a site out there in cyberspace called getmyroad.com.
Now you know, there’s probably more than one of these.
But anyway, it is an open source to videos on the Internet.
open source.
What does that mean?
It means it’s free.
So you can download the video to your computer and then translate it to your
iPod and take it with you.
Hmm.
I might have to try that.
Yes. And I might have to get my husband to do that for me.
(Chinese).
OK. Let’s now go to Michelle for today’s Language Tips.
(Chinese).
Hi.
(Chinese).
And don’t forget to come back tomorrow.
See you then.
Bye-bye.
Thanks, Michelle.
Friends, we have a few suggested podcast websites for you to visit.
They’re listed there on page thirty-six.
Take a moment and check them out.
We’d be surprised if you don’t find something that interests you.
Now did you know making a podcast isn’t just for professionals?
Most anyone can make one.
We’ll look at that tomorrow in our lesson:
Podcasting Power.
Until then,
we at Studio Classroom Worldwide hope you have a fantastic day.
Bye-bye, everyone.
(Music).