1. 1 Podcasting Possibilities Jennifer Reeves Cyprien Lomas

2. 2 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”

3. 3 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

4. 4 What is Podcasting? Where did it come from? RSS feeds News Readers Why now?

5. 5 What is Podcasting Really? TiVo for audio files Files come to you Listen offline, anytime

6. 6 Influence of the Blogosphere DIY vs. Professional Content Cinema Verité The influence of the Cluetrain Manifesto Evolving Weekly (about 22 weeks old) Honest Voices

7. 7 Podcasting so far Underworld of anything audio:  Opinions and discussions  “Podsafe” music Mainstream  Sermons  Speeches  Journalism

8. 8 NLII Podcasting Experiment Partnership with Missouri School of Journalism, Apple Computer and Penn State Team of 3 Provide a new podcasting experience

9. 9 Experiment Goals Learn the logistics Find out how much content we can create Get people interested Preserve the meeting

10. 10 Intensive Podcasting “Quick turns” NPR-style reviews Voices of participants

11. 11 Podcasting Logistics Audio capture Editing Compression

12. 12 Final Results Speeches: 4.9 hours Edited work: 38.4 minutes Total: 5.6 hours

13. 13 Post Conference Stats How many downloads Used for… The blogosphere reaction

14. 14 Reaction to Podcasting Skepticism Confusion Excitement Innovation

15. 15 Institutional Value? Education

16. 16 Why is Podcasting Great? Ease of information transmission Simple delivery process More use for MP3 players

17. 17 Challenges Getting students to “buy in” Consistent podcasts Technological support from university (server space, upkeep, bandwidth) Promotion

18. 18 Podcasting Potential Supplementary information Lecture review Online courses Student involvement Student ownership of material: remixing /reorganizing data

19. 19 Podcasting Potential New medium for new voices (blogging favors writers) Integration with location based applications Blog systems of recommender/referrer systems (collaborative filtering)

20. 20 Vodcasting How is this related? RSS treatment of media - any media can be shifted around

21. 21 Vodcasting Another level of access to the classroom Requires a camera Even more potential for online courses

22. 22 Vodcasting This is emerging as we speak: digitalbicycle.org www.videoblogging.info groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging freevlog.blogspot.com

23. 23 What’s next?