My first two sessions this morning dealt with podcasting. The first, from the University of Illinois, focused on administration. They are using iTunesU (not a big surprise) but launched in June 2006 (a surprise: UW only launched in fall 2007). Some podcasts are “open” to the public. Podcasts are also used in marketing (send to donors and/or potential donors). About 26 faculty are podcasting each semester. Either they record the live lecture (video and audio) or they record a summary after the class.The second was a case study from the UK, with a focus on the lecturer. Their data suggests students have little desire to re-listen to an entire lecture, even one recorded as an enhanced podcast with chapters. And some students still prefer paper delivery. These podcasts are edited, supplemental material. Not sure if they have identified an optimal length.
Tag Archives: Podcasting
Winter 2007 – My, Oh, My!
Gack! It’s been a month since I posted here. In the interim, we had the windstorm from hell … resulting in a nightmare experience with Delta on our holiday tirp to the Bahamas. Seattle has been locked in the grip of Arctic air fronts and ice and snow and sub-20 weather … until now. Two classes this quarter: COM 300, Intro to New Media … and COM 585, DM Content Creation.
I’m a regular guest now on Blog Talk Radio – RSS feed here! And I’ve put a toe in the water in political podcasting; inaugural post info.
NCA: Podcasting In The Classroom
Podcasting As Active Learning: My 8 minute presentation at NCA, San Antonio, on experimenting with podcasting as a learning tool in COM300, Spring 2006, at the University of Washington.
From the program, session 40742:
The panelists are early adopters of podcasting for instructional development. Podcasting is an internet-based audio/video distribution technology allowing subscribers to automatically receive updated content for listening/viewing via computer or portable media
Listen …
mp4 @ dotMac,
mp3 @ UW
Unfortunately, Too True
BBC Expands Website Interactivity
The BBC has announced plans to engage in the Web 2.0 community of consumer-generated content, which he calls a second digital wave.
I believe that this second digital wave will turn out to
be far more disruptive than the first, that it will be fundamentally
disruptive, and that the foundations on which much of traditional media
is built may be swept away entirely…[It is characterized by all] media – sound, picture, text – available on all devices, all the time. Searchable, movable, share-able… [and] People will also be able to make and distribute pretty much anything they want to…
For broadcasters, the digital revolution can be summed up in four words: audiences have a choice.
