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Book Review: Listen Up! : Podcasting for Schools and Libraries

Title: Listen Up! : Podcasting for Schools and Libraries Author: Linda W. Braun Publisher: Information Today, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-57387-304-8 Price: $29.50 US Subjects: Internet in education; Libraries and the Internet; and Podcasting When I learned that Leo Laporte ( TWiT ) had done the forward to this book I figured it was a pretty safe bet that it would be a stellar reference for podcasting and I was right. Linda W. Braun set out to create a book that would explain podcasting to schools and libraries without the necessity of a lot of technical knowledge and I think she has achieved this goal marvelously. The book is broken into six chapters: This Thing We Call Podcasting; Before You Get Started; Real Life Examples; What Makes a Great Podcast: Developing the Content; What Makes a Great Podcast: the Technology; and Get the Word Out. The table of contents breaks the chapters down further into subtitles and sidebars making it easy to find the section you want at a glance. Each section