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 subscribers and Podcast circulation is growing 20% per month.

6 million iPods

Webcast = Podcast?

Audio on the web does not = PodcastingVideo 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

Using iTunes

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.

Integrating WebCT with vodcasting and podcasting

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