EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences, Instructional Technologies, and Podcasting

Evolution of iTunesU and Its Role in the Duke Experience

drupal — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:13:25 -0600

As one of the pilot schools developing iTunes U, Duke University has seen an evolution of the tool over the past three years on its campus. The repository of content in iTunes U reaches faculty, staff, students, alumni, prospective students/parents, and the world at large. This presentation will discuss past, present, and future plans for iTunes U at Duke.

Podcasting and Digital Media Systems: Leveraging Ad Hoc and Enterprise Solutions

drupal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:30:39 -0600

The focus of this seminar will be to provide a look at desktop and enterprise solutions for the creation, management, hosting, and delivery of digital media, including podcasting. We will consider tools that allow the average person to create podcasts and coursecasts on their own. We will then look at enterprise-level systems, including commercial and open source, and discuss their ability to integrate and authenticate with course management systems. Hosting options (iTunes U, YouTube, and Screencast.com) will be explored. You will learn about the social, industry, and Internet trends that are defining the standards for digital media. You will leave with a resource guide containing information and links to systems and tools discussed, along with an instrument for determining needs and a guide to evaluating systems.

Using Video Streaming and Podcasting to Design Rich-Media Online Courses

drupal — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:16:30 -0600

This session will cover lessons learned and best practices for creating highly interactive, student-centered, rich-media online courses with customizable and mobile learning using Mediasite video streaming and video and audio podcasting. It will include a tour of a course Web site, 10 principles for good practice for innovative online education, and a course design toolkit.

Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts: Personal Authoring Technologies Enrich Communication and Expression for You and Your Students

drupal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:24:33 -0600

Personal authoring technologies have made it easier than ever for instructors and students to contribute their thoughts, experiences, and opinions to a global discourse. In addition, these technologies provide a rich opportunity for instructors to focus their students' attention on discipline-specific questions related to a single course or topic.

This seminar will give attendees valuable "face time" with blogs, wikis, and podcasts in order to critically assess their instructional value and creative potential, as well as the IT infrastructure required to support them. We will demonstrate the numerous technologies UW-Madison is using, discuss the pedagogical application and assessment of these technologies, present an overview of IT support challenges, and provide hands-on experiences with the production of blogs, wikis, and podcasts. The seminar will conclude with a discussion of other personal authoring technologies emerging on the educational horizon.

Welcome to the Social: Effective Use of Podcasting for Freshman Classes

drupal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:24:33 -0600

Many of the motivations for podcasting a class take on a different light when dealing with a freshman course at 8:00 a.m. The presentation will highlight a portable and easy-to-use podcasting implementation and address some of the unique challenges of using podcasting for a freshman class.

Podcasting the Classroom: Two Models

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:49 -0500

CALI sponsored a project in which 50 faculty from 45 different law schools used podcasting in their courses. This presentation will demonstrate the open-source system we built to handle it (called Classcaster), discuss the lessons we learned, and talk about how any educational institution can add a scalable podcasting system to its repertoire.

The Duke iPod First-Year Experience

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:30 -0600

In 2004 Duke distributed iPods to more than 1,600 incoming freshmen. Discover how iPods were used in courses and student life, share lessons learned about coordination and collaboration from the technical and academic perspectives, and hear the assessment of academic use of iPods. Learn how the Duke iPod experiment evolved into a broader Duke Digital Initiative for the 2005-06 academic year.