I was wandering around the Internet a couple hours ago and I found myself at the website of one of my favorite authors, Jodi Picoult. I had just finished one of her books and I was looking for information on the one that just came out a couple of weeks ago. While I was perusing her website, I found a section where she had posted several podcasts.
For the most part, they are short, averaging anywhere from 5-15 minutes each, but the ones I've listened to so far have been an amazing trip into her mind. She describes how she comes up with the ideas for her books, just talks about general things that are going on and gives honest tips to people who might want to be writers someday.
It was after the fourth one I listened to, that I got the idea to write about this in this weeks post. For all the technology that I use on a daily basis, it is these little nuggets that will always amaze me. Podcasts have allowed me the opportunity to listen to this author, in her own words, talk to me as though I had gone to a lecture or an appearance.
I think that podcasting is really an undervalued resource that should definitely be paid more attention to. Especially as many more colleges and universities seem to be embracing it as an emerging technology. High schools, however...not so much. That is going to be the subject of my next post :)
And by the way.......the podcasts I just spoke about are at www.jodipicoult.com
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