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Podcasting Possibilities. Jennifer Reeves Cyprien Lomas. Why We’re Here. Jen Reeves: Assistant Professor, Missouri School of Journalism Led podcasting experiment at NLII annual meeting Looking for new and useful ways to use podcasting and “vodcasting”. Why We’re Here. Cyprien Lomas:
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Podcasting Possibilities Jennifer Reeves Cyprien Lomas
Why We’re Here • Jen Reeves: • Assistant Professor, Missouri School of Journalism • Led podcasting experiment at NLII annual meeting • Looking for new and useful ways to use podcasting and “vodcasting”
Why We’re Here • Cyprien Lomas: • Director, The Learning Centre, UBC • NLII Fellow 2004 & ADE • Blogger, RSS enthusiast • Interested in exploring emerging practices associated with new technologies in Higher Education
What is Podcasting? • Where did it come from? • RSS feeds • News Readers • Why now?
What is Podcasting Really? • TiVo for audio files • Files come to you • Listen offline, anytime
Influence of the Blogosphere • DIY vs. Professional Content • Cinema Verité • The influence of the Cluetrain Manifesto • Evolving Weekly (about 22 weeks old) • Honest Voices
Podcasting so far • Underworld of anything audio: • Opinions and discussions • “Podsafe” music • Mainstream • Sermons • Speeches • Journalism
NLII Podcasting Experiment • Partnership with Missouri School of Journalism, Apple Computer and Penn State • Team of 3 • Provide a new podcasting experience
Experiment Goals • Learn the logistics • Find out how much content we can create • Get people interested • Preserve the meeting
Intensive Podcasting • “Quick turns” • NPR-style reviews • Voices of participants
Podcasting Logistics • Audio capture • Editing • Compression
Final Results • Speeches: 4.9 hours • Edited work: 38.4 minutes • Total: 5.6 hours
Post Conference Stats • How many downloads • Used for… • The blogosphere reaction
Reaction to Podcasting • Skepticism • Confusion • Excitement • Innovation
Institutional Value? • Education
Why is Podcasting Great? • Ease of information transmission • Simple delivery process • More use for MP3 players
Challenges • Getting students to “buy in” • Consistent podcasts • Technological support from university(server space, upkeep, bandwidth) • Promotion
Podcasting Potential • Supplementary information • Lecture review • Online courses • Student involvement • Student ownership of material: remixing /reorganizing data
Podcasting Potential • New medium for new voices (blogging favors writers) • Integration with location based applications • Blog systems of recommender/referrer systems (collaborative filtering)
Vodcasting • How is this related? • RSS treatment of media - any media can be shifted around
Vodcasting • Another level of access to the classroom • Requires a camera • Even more potential for online courses
Vodcasting • This is emerging as we speak: • digitalbicycle.org • www.videoblogging.info • groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging • freevlog.blogspot.com