I wanna know
Created by Jennifer Lee Reeves (University of Missouri-Columbia) on January 25, 2005
I've been madly podcasting during this entire conference... And now I'm sitting back and watching our team of reporters, Sarah Ashworth and Kyle Palmer edit our final piece. It's 5:30 and the conference is really officially over in 30 minutes... But for most, it ended 5 and a half hours ago.
So I sit here in the lobby of the hotel as I look at the number of hits to the various podcasts I've uploaded. I'm proud so many people hit the audio files. We've worked hard and learned a ton about how to do this podcasting thing. I'll be honest. Three weeks ago, podcasting was a topic discussed in my technology committee emails, but I hadn't had the time to play. (I have a 2 and 1/2 year old) Now I'm hooked. I have to start my own podcasting site somehow and share audio clips of the boy so family and friends can listen on their iPod. (My kid sings a mean alphabet song and Jingle Bells)
Anyway. Now I'm really curious. Did you listen? Did you subscribe to iPodder or iPodderX? Did you get your clips from someone else's iTunes? I want to know how many people out there are enjoying our work. I'd love to know if you thought the whole podcasting experience was worth the effort to download into your iTunes or MP3 folder.
I'm hooked. I can't wait to take this experiment to my campus and start talking about the many uses. I hope you had as much fun with it as much as we did.
So I sit here in the lobby of the hotel as I look at the number of hits to the various podcasts I've uploaded. I'm proud so many people hit the audio files. We've worked hard and learned a ton about how to do this podcasting thing. I'll be honest. Three weeks ago, podcasting was a topic discussed in my technology committee emails, but I hadn't had the time to play. (I have a 2 and 1/2 year old) Now I'm hooked. I have to start my own podcasting site somehow and share audio clips of the boy so family and friends can listen on their iPod. (My kid sings a mean alphabet song and Jingle Bells)
Anyway. Now I'm really curious. Did you listen? Did you subscribe to iPodder or iPodderX? Did you get your clips from someone else's iTunes? I want to know how many people out there are enjoying our work. I'd love to know if you thought the whole podcasting experience was worth the effort to download into your iTunes or MP3 folder.
I'm hooked. I can't wait to take this experiment to my campus and start talking about the many uses. I hope you had as much fun with it as much as we did.
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I am back at home now and trying to download the feed here with iPodder and I am having a bit of a problem. Even though when you click on the RSS feed, they all seem to be there, when iPodder checks for new podcasts, it only finds the last one. Any ideas of why that is?
One last thing, would you mind if we used some of the clips on our generations Web site? We'll be sure to credit you. Thanks.
I've been using both iPodder and iPodderX for months and can't seem to get either of them to work exactly how I'd like them to ... still an early stage product and concept and I am sure it will become very usable here in the next several months.
I have been talking with Adam Curry of podcating, MTV, and Daily Source Code fame about what we were attempting to do at NLII and he was very impressed and thinks we are really on to something ... he even plugged the effort on the Daily Source Code on his 1.24.05 show ... I'd like to see us keep this moving forward and start to think about how this stuff is going to change classroom content and media delivery in the coming weeks, months, etc.
Thanks for making it happen ... I know there were late nights, lots of bandwidth checks, troubleshooting, and frustrations ... but in the end the product is just outstanding! Good stuff-->
You and your team did a truly amazing job. At the risk of telling you what you did, do you realize that you:
* Put together a high performance team
* Joined other high performance teams (NLII, PSU, Apple) seamlessly
* Introduced a new technology to both novices and experts
* Used your expertice as a faculty member and producer to develop a high quailty teaching experience as well as
* Produced a high quailty audio production
* Converted that production to PodCasts
* Did this under an extremely tight time constraint
* Maintained your great good humour
* Took the gentle ribbing of colleages, paricularly, Carl
Real Cheers
Let me add my kudos to the chorus. Carl summed your efforts up well. To his thoughtful remarks I'll add that you've also contributed a terrific recruiting tool as I try to spread the word about the NLII and its work around my campus. To be able to share an inspiring new technology with great implications for teaching and learning, and to have the "demonstration" be such fine content from the annual meeting, makes for some very effective faculty contact. I'm in your debt.
By the way, I'm having better luck with Nimiq than iPodder as my podcatcher. I have more control over things like the history list, and the extra control makes it easier for me to try again if the first attempt fails. iPodder's a little too untweakable. You can find Nimiq at http://nimiq.nl/.