FYI-- been exploring the use of iPods in academia and found an interesting field study from Duke University in 2004. The full report (15 pages) can be found here:

http://cit.duke.edu/pdf/reports/ipod_initiative_04_05.pdf

A few notable points:

• Students and faculty were most excited by the ability to record lectures in small classroom settings (time-shifting). Recording was the most widely used feature.
• Faculty were worried that students would decided to stop attending class.
• There were significant barriers to success: integration and compatibility issues, access to commercial content, training.

Also been playing with iTunesU (launched by Apple at the end of May ‘07). The concept is exciting, but iteration of v1.0 is a bit boring- lots of talking heads at podiums.

We are all going to need to take conceptualization/creation/production to higher levels to keep the students engaged.


I just got a series of messages with resources for podcasting. I'm just going to cut and paste them in here for now...I'll try to clean up more later:


Limited Podcasting Bibliography:

Grad readings:

Krause, Steve. Broadcast Composition : Using Audio Files and Podcasts
in an Online Writing Course. C&C Online, Fall 2006. Available:
<http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/krause1/index.html>
http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/krause1/index.html

Doug Dangler, Ben McCorkle, and Time Barrow's "Expanding Composition
Audiences with Podcasting," C&C Online, Spring 2007. Available:
<http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/podcasting/>
http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/podcasting/

Berry, Richard "Will the iPod Kill the Radio Star? Profiling Podcasting as
Radio. " Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media
Technologies Vol 12(2): 143-162.

Cebeci, Zeynel and Mehmet Tekdal. "Using Podcasts as Audio Learning
Objects." Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects 2
(2006): 47-57.

Price, Aaron, Pamela Gay, Travis Searle, and Gina Brissenden. "A History
and Assessment of the Slacker Astronomy Podcast." Astronomy Education
Review, 5.1 (2006). 11 pages.

Gay, Pamela., Aaron Price and Travis Searle. "Astronomy Podcasting: a
Low-cost Tool for Effecting Attitude in Diverse Audiences" Astronomy
Education Review 5.1 (2006). 17 pages.

Both:
"Podcasting: The Next Big Thing" Weekday NPR.
<http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=8243>
http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=8243 starts at about 5:55 on the
RealAudio and the MP# stars right at the beginning. Long.

Coop's word. Blog <http://drcoop.pbwiki.com/> http://drcoop.pbwiki.com/

Undergrad possibilities:
Manning, S. (2005). The promise of Podcasting. Pointers & Clickers, 6(2).
<http://www.ion.illinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2005_03/Podcasting20
05.pdf>
http://www.ion.illinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2005_03/Podcasting200
5.pdf (focuses on education)

Meng, P. (2005). Podcasting & vodcasting: Definitions, discussions &
implications. A White paper by IAT Services at University of Missouri.
<http://edmarketing.apple.com/adcinstitute/wp-content/Missouri_Podcasting_Wh
ite_Paper.pdf>
http://edmarketing.apple.com/adcinstitute/wp-content/Missouri_Podcasting_Whi
te_Paper.pdf

Van Nuys, David. "Podcasting: The Next Big Thing." QRCA Views Spring 2006:
66-70.

Johnson, Tom. "Pod casting: A new layer of communication" intercom jan 2007
12-16.

Podcasting: the People's Radio Andy Affleck. Tidibits.
http://db.tidbits.com/article/7986

So I'd suggest that you supplement the readings with resources on accessible podcasting, or make accessibility a topic for part of a class discussion: captioning and sub-titling tools, transcription services, full-text audio search engines, and arguments for and against making audio and video accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

- Making podcasts accessible: http://hightech.redwoods.edu/accessibility/podcasting/ <http://hightech.redwoods.edu/accessibility/podcasting/>
- Casting Words (transcription service): http://castingwords.com/ <http://castingwords.com/>
- Accessible.ie (blog entry on accessible podcasting): http://www.accessible.ie/?p=53 <http://www.accessible.ie/?p=53>
- Full text audio search engine (using speech recognition to produce automated transcripts of audio podcasts): http://www.everyzing.com/ <http://www.everyzing.com/>
- 2004 post on accessible podcasting from Andy Carvin: http://www.andycarvin.com/000695.html <http://www.andycarvin.com/000695.html>
- WebAIM on captioning: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/ <http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/>
- Closed Captioning Web: http://www.captions.org/ <http://www.captions.org/>