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2006 Campus Technology Innovators: Podcasting
7/23/2006
The team wanted to make the technology as transparent as possible and selected Apple’s iPod Photo, one of the only devices that could both record and receive podcasts. Griffin Technology’s iTalk was needed to add recording capabilities—and the company generously donated 20 units for the pilot. Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net) was a natural choice for audio editing due to its ease of use and its GNU General Public License.
The Office of Academic Technology and eLearning created a course “shell” or website in the college’s course management system called Educator (Ucompass technology), for use in the iDentity Quest project. The course environment was configured to support uploading of MP3 files directly by students in an easy-to-follow process. This online environment also supported the interactions between faculty and students and among students themselves via use of online discussion forums, e-mail, and chat.
Next Steps
Marist is in the process of testing an open source set of PHP scripts dubbed Podcast Generator, with which the school hopes to be able to scale the project over the coming semesters. There is also preliminary discussion of working to integrate these capabilities into the Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment that is in the early testing stage at the college.
Advice
Baron offers a word of caution to those who would send technology-toting students abroad: “Students need to be trained carefully before they leave their home institution in order to ensure they have mastered the technical skills to complete projects. Working closely with your media center will help enormously to address these challenges.”
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