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Many places we visited in DC provided podcast tours; unfortunately, we where not allowed to listen to the MP3 during our tour in the capital. The freedom to explore and absorb the quirky facts about the capital was squashed by a tour guide speaking softly to a group of over sixty. It was quite disappointing that our group was excluded from this experience. The majority of the museums we visited were heavily text loaded which doesn't thrill our techie generation. The use of podcasts is this setting would revolutionize the knowledge students absorb during their visit. Luckily there were opportunities to watch a short video or experience a flight simulator.
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I totally agree that podcast tour would have been perfect. I loved the city but was a bit surprised that I wasn't crazy about the Air & Space museum, for example, because it was difficult to take in that I was looking at the actual Apollo 11 Command Module that flew to the moon. Weird. I think that there's an awesome project here of bringing better presentation tech to place like the Smithsonian Museums. :-)
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