Tech Tuesdays: 7-1-08

Good Folks,

For this Tech-Tuesdays segment, I want to stay on the subject of podcasting in education. Actually, at the risk of “working a good horse to death,” I’m planning on posting at least one or two additional pieces on the subject before moving on to other items. Specifically, I’d like to share some insights on creating and posting video podcasts, and I’d also like to explore some good resources and methods for locating and downloading educational video clips.

Future of Podcasting

The video clip below is a short piece on the future of podcasting from the Future Tense podcast from American Public Media that was posted back in February of this year. Here’s the link to the post on the Future Tense web site:

http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2008/02/06.shtml

It’s also posted on the Regional Campus and Distance Education Association wiki, at http://rcdea.wetpaint.com/.

Weekly Web Sighting(s)

This week I want to direct your attention to two pretty decent resources for podcasting and teaching with hand-helds (of which podcasting is a subset):

1. http://learninginhand.com/ - this is a great resource for teaching with hand-held devices, and it contains a great section on podcasting. There’s also a learning-in-hand podcast that you can subscribe to in iTunes.

2. http://techintegration.cciu.org/index.html - the home page is entitled “Instructional Technology Resources.” Again, this is a great starting point for information on podcasting, and teaching with technology in general.

Hey – as always, please don’t hesitate to contact me with any concerns, questions, or suggestions you may have concerning Tech-Tuesdays, or anything dealing with the use of technology in teaching. Thanks!

John Spencer
Technology Training Specialist
USU Brigham City Regional Campus