Podcasting Part II: How tos, RSS and Resources

April 16-20, 2007

Welcome to the world of podcasting! Some people in traditional media claim that podcasting is a FAD.  If they mean Free Audio Download - they are right.  But if they mean that podcasting is a flash in the pan - they couldn't be more wrong! They also thought blogging was a flash in the pan ... there are nearly 10 million blogs in play today. Twenty months ago, you could have typed in "podcasting" and received no more than 100 hits... today you will extract nearly 20 million hits. Finally, there are a mere 10,000 people actually podcasting today on a fairly regular basis... by 2010 that number will most likely top 150,000.

Today is right for using podcasting in the classroom. Join us and learn how it's done!

If you were unable to participate in the Podcasting Part I discussion, you can still log in to Moodle and review the discussion resources and forum posts.

Moderators

Peter F. Young is serving as the Director of Undergraduate Business Programs at Notre Dame de Namur University just south of San Francisco, CA. Peter actually began work on ARPANet [precursor to the Internet we know and love today] back in 1973 at UCLA and was on the first MILNet management team [first spin-off of ARPANet] while serving in the US Army... And has been tinkering with the Internet ever since! Peter currently teaches a 'Introduction of Podcasting & Internet TV Production' and an 'Advanced Podcast Production' course at NDNU and recently received the Faculty Diversity Research Award for his work in simultaneous translation of news broadcasting via podcasting for English <--> Spanish.

Ray Schroeder photoRay Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of Communication, Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning (OTEL) at the University of Illinois at Springfield.  He has taught more than two dozen online classes.  As Director of OTEL he is dedicated to faculty development and pedagogical support of the online initiative.  Schroeder has numerous national conference presentations and publications in the area of online learning and the application of technology to enhance the learning process.  He has published the popular Online Learning Update blog for the past half dozen years.  Schroeder is a Sloan Consortium Distinguished Scholar in Online Learning 2002-2003, recipient of the 2002 Sloan-C award for the "Most Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual," and University of Southern Maine "Visiting Scholar in Online Learning" 2006-2008.  

 

 

Series Schedule

February 5-9
Teaching the 21st Century Learner
Roger Von Holzen and Darla Runyon, Northwest Missouri State University

March 5-9
Wikis for Collaborating and Learning
Nancy Rebholz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

March 26-30
Podcasting Part I: Applications and Case Study in Higher Education
Margaret Hansen, University of San Francisco
Peter Young, Notre Dame de Namur University

April 16-20
Podcasting Part II: How tos, RSS and  Resources
Peter Young, Notre Dame de Namur University
Ray Schroeder, professor emeritus, University of Illinois Springfield