PodGuides

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From the site: What's a PodGuide?.
"A PodGuide is a very simple thing. It's the combination of a map (PDF) of a certain place and a series of audio tracks (mp3) which you can download for your iPod. Think of an audio tour in a museum, but not limited to just that. You could have a PodGuide about the 10 coolest pubs in London for example, or a PodGuide which shows you the most known historic buildings in Bruges. But it might just as well be about the most strangest front doors in Kleit (no you don't know Kleit)."

I'm wondering how this could be used in education. Definitely for something like a tour of a Botanical Gardens. Or could be an induction to a workplace with major areas marked as well as evacuation routes. Location of equipment or where specific tasks are performed. What else could we use it for????

How about instead of a map, you could have an image with dots showing parts of equipment, and the audio would be explanation of the equipment, or an image of a form, and the audio provides explanations of the parts of the form.

A nice little bit of interactivity simply built, that combines visual and audio cues, without a huge literacy barrier. In areas of very low literacy, educators could download the audio to mp3 player and provide a printout of the map/diagram to the learner if needed.

The generator asks for the map file (I used a jpg rather than pdf and it didn't object) and the file names for the audio. You then move the tracks into the right folder manually.