My Aha! Moment in Auditory Learning

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[Stephan F]

I mostly use audio programs in my car to fill up all that dead time while commuting and running errands and doing yardwork and the like.

I have a number of audioseminars and they just go on and on and on for hour or more, but I rarely have that long to listen. Mostly I drive in the 5-10 min range, though the average commute is about 26 min. So take that into account.

I would prefer to have a series of short, to-the-point moments. Two-and-a-half to five minutes of laser focused material would be much more useful to me. A complete thought that I can think about is more useful then something incomplete.

I realize that my attention is not wholly focused on the audioseminars while driving, so I am not getting all of it in any case. But I know that and have another playlist on my iPod that is just for my top rated audioseminars. I rate each piece of audio as it plays. So I listen to the good ones more often and get more out of them over time. But often they are too long to listen too completely in the car and then there is a long wait before I have a chance to finish listening and I forget what they were talking about.

I would also recommend that you might want to provide your audio material in Bookmarkable AAC in addition to MP3, so podpeople can just pickup where they left off whenever they get back to it. That is less of an issue if they are only 5 minutes long but much more important if they are 20+ minutes long.

(Full disclosure, I write articles for iPodGarage.com)

[Rosa]

Thank you Stephan! I really appreciate that you took the time to write this response for me! Mahalo nui,
Rosa