TECHNOLOGY CORNER

Are you Listening and Learning with Podcasts?

Engaging, entertaining, inquisitive and educational, podcasts are on-demand or online audio programs that include a series of episodes focused on a particular topic or theme. Myriads of podcasts explore natural resources, hunting, and conservation topics.

Fit easily into daily routines

Listen at your convenience. It’s on-demand content with the listener scheduling what and when.

Listening with focused attention supports active learning.

Podcasts increase access for folks with visual or reading difficulties and can accommodate various learning styles. An engaging program usually tells a story, weaving factual information with humor to engage the listener.

How they work

Interested, but unfamiliar? Getting started is as simple as clicking an episode link and listening from a web browser. Access from a podcast app on your phone or tablet allows for on-the-go listening; downloading episodes when you have internet access means you can listen later without worrying about cell service. Podcasts are usually free – subscribing means you are alerted to new episodes as they are available. Some will have ads that support their efforts financially.

Podcast Recommendations from TLA Staff

DEER SEASON 365 PODCAST – deerassociation.com/podcast Prescribed Fire Basics: Learning to Burn Safely and Effectively with Wildlife Biologist Shan Cammack FRIENDS OF FIRE – southernfireexchange.org/sfe-podcast IN DEFENSE OF PLANTS – indefenseofplants.com/podcast Episode 346 - A Longleaf Adventure Revisited, Episode 264 - The Longleaf Alliance Speaks for the Trees, & Episode 171 - Restoring Plants & Saving a Salamander HOW THE RIVER FLOWS – keepingforests.org/podcast Water and Forests MEATEATER – themeateater.com Episode 269: The Mooch, featuring turkey hunting stories with former Longleaf Alliance President Robert Abernethy OLOGIES WITH ALIE WARD – alieward.com/ologies Indigenous Fire Ecology (GOOD FIRE) and Wildlife Ecology SNAKE TALK WITH DR. JENKINS –oriannesociety.org/initiatives/snake-talk TALKING FORESTS – talkingforests.com

THE WILD WITH CHRIS MORGAN – thewildpod.org

WUNC'S TESTED – wunc.org/podcast/tested-podcast North Carolina's Iconic Longleaf Pine And The Fight Against Climate Change