Educational podcasts should do historical sight seeing tours

Here is a sample of a sound-seeing tour I did in Old New Castle Delaware where I read the historic signs as I walked. Think about the possibilities of students downloading tours of historical sights across the world and inviting them to do further research.

http://erang.brinkster.net/blog/0007_newcastledelawaretour.mp3

To subscribe to my podcast where I will eventually put a few more of these tours up, point your podcatcher to:

http://home.comcast.net/~erangell/blog/rss.xml

12/19/2005: I took the plunge, got a libsyn account, and spent a day publishing the first of my historic walking tour podcasts. You can view the blog for this podcast at:

http://erangell.libsyn.com

or subscribe at http://erangell.libsyn.com/rss

I have a vision which I would like to share here, and would like you to add comments about how it can be accomplished:

There are many disabled people who may be unemployed and have difficulty getting jobs. They need money for healthcare costs. I have also met brain-injured people who face an enormous struggle to recreate their lives. Also, people who are taking steps toward recovery may need something to get them started on the path to self sufficiency. Podcasters may have needs for people who can transcribe the audio content so it can be posted on their blogs and make it searchable or taggable. I know there are efforts to do automated voice recognition, but these may not be as accurate or formatted for ease of reading. If there existed a service which could connect job referral agencies for the disabled with podcasters who desire transcription services, and if podcast sponsors would support payments for these services in the form of short term consulting contracts, then a valuable new marketplace will be created that will enable skill improvement for many people. Podcasters should be willing to give these people a chance, and provide constructive criticism to help them improve. I would like to see this happen, but don't have the time or resources to do the footwork at the present time. Perhaps some of you would like to post ideas here and start a grassroots network to develop this vision.

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If anybody is interested in developing the idea in the following link as an open source project, please contact me at eric@erangell.com

http://onebighead.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_onebighead_archive.html