The Effectiveness of podcasting in Developing its Production Skills among Students of the Faculty of Specific Education

The current era is characterized by scientific and technological progress that has led to changes in various fields, where information technology has brought about a societal transformation and the world has become more like a small village. The applications offered by the second generation of the web generations are a type of e-learning through which sufficient opportunities can be provided for learning, training, and collective and cooperative work. So the aim of the current research is to develop the skills of designing and producing podcasts for first year students, Department of Instructional Technology, Faculty of Specific Education, Minia University, as one of the second generation web technologies that can be employed in the educational process.
The experimental processing material was to produce a podcast blog created through one of Google's educational applications Google+, through which it provides the skills to produce an educational podcast, in a way that helps learners to be able to produce it. These skills included six skills, which included: {the skill of collecting scientific material, script writing, preparing the sound for production, identifying the tools needed to produce and record sound, adding sound effects, and preserving audio broadcasts. The current research relied on the semi-experimental approach to achieve its goals. The research group consisted of (20) male and female students. Measurement tools consisted of a cognitive test and a product evaluation card to assess podcast design and production skills.
The most important results of the research were the effectiveness of podcasts in developing the skills of podcast production for Students.