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podcasting. June 2006. What is the big deal?. Apple Ipods has captured 78% of the mp3 market. (2005) 73% students rated ipod as #1 “in” thing, overtaking beer drinking. (Jun 2006) 840,000 U.S. podcast audience last year, predicted 56 million by 2010.
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podcasting June 2006
What is the big deal? • Apple Ipods has captured 78% of the mp3 market. (2005) • 73% students rated ipod as #1 “in” thing, overtaking beer drinking. (Jun 2006) • 840,000 U.S. podcast audience last year, predicted 56 million by 2010. • FeedBurner manage 54,000 podcasts, 3 million subscribersand Podcast circulation is growing 20% per month.
Webcast = Podcast? Audio on the web does not = Podcasting Video on the web does not = Vodcasting A podcast is a web feed of audio or video files placed on the Internet for anyone to subscribe to, and also the content of that feed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
How can I subscribe to a podcast? • Find a “podcatcher” (podcasting software) • http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ • http://podcasts.yahoo.com/ • http://www.blinkx.com/ • juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ • www.ipodder.org/ • www.feedburner.com • Add the RSS URL to the podcatcher. • Subscribe through iTunes. • Listen to the podcasts.
Using iTunes • Download and install iTunes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ (free) • Launch iTunes from your computer
Enjoy your podcast! sync your iPod
What is iPodable? • Audio recording of text books, • Recording of Lectures. • Language or Music courses • Speeches, Talks • Digital Audio Books • Distance Learning • Oral or video interviews – archiving • Storage – slides, photos
iPod Faculty? • Duke’s experiment • US$500,000 project • CIT coordinates iPod courses • Recruited faculty into the project • iPod faculty: • Lecturers, Professors, Fellows from various faculties • Brandeis’ iPod pilot • http://lts.brandeis.edu/teachlearn/ipod/about.html
iTuning Apple has accepted 24 universities for the program .. including Case Western Reserve University (in process) iTunes@Case
iTuned Universities • Stanford on iTunes • itunes.stanford.edu • U of Michigan School of Dentistry • www.dent.umich.edu/itunes/ • U of Missouri School of Journalism • jour2005.missouri.edu/ • U of Wisconsin at Madison - engage.doit.wisc.edu/podcasting/index.html • Brown Duke • cit.duke.edu/about/ipod_project.do • www.duke.edu/ddi/ • UC Berkeley • http://itunes.berkeley.edu/ • Ohio U (beta) • Ohlone College (accepted May 2006)
Free iPods • Duke (1600 freshmen 2004 received free ipods preloaded with orientation resources) • http://www.duke.edu/search/?q=ipod • Drexel U (33 * School of Education freshmen received free iPods.) • Chemistry lectures as podcasts • Podpage http://www.drexel.edu/academics/soe/student/podpage.html
Outside of iTunes University of Nebraska-Lincoln"sound-seeing" tour of campus buildings. University of Iowa: a video that teaches how to insert a tube into the trachea to aid breathing. Georgia College and State University: Students on study abroad program can download language, culture materials related to their host countries.
Outside of iTunes • UC-Berkeley is delivering podcasts and webcasts of several of their courses. • Purdue’s BoilerCasts, listing course numbers. • MIT online course contents using OpenCourseWare.
Interesting links, reports etc • Podcasting & Vodcasting A White Paper. March 2005. University of Missouri. • Academic iPod Projects Fall 2004 – Spring 2005. Duke University iPod First Year. Experience Final Evaluation Report. June 2005. • Podcasting at UW: An Evaluation of Current Use. Jan 2006. • Podcasting in Education. Spring 2006 Workshop Handout. Seattle Community Colleges. • Podcasting Legal Guide. Creative Commons • www.podcastingnews.com