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Podcasting Uses
• Teaching and learning (inclusion of podcasts in
Oncourse, use by schools/faculty, use by
Continuing Studies, etc.)
• Marketing and publicity (both internal and
external)
• Support and education (both internal and
external)
• Other mission related use by faculty, staff, and
students to support research and creative
activity, as well as provide public service
Podcasting Services
• Oncourse CL podcasting tool
• iTunes U
• IU Podcast Portal
• IT Training and Education Programs
• Faculty iPod Program
• Podcast Producer (proof of concept)
Oncourse CL Podcasting Tool
• http://oncourse.iu.edu
• A community source podcast tool created by the
Sakai partnership
• Educational content for courses and for groups
using Oncourse CL
• Internal, class only, group only
• Authenticated access
Our Message to Departments
• Indentify a podcast point of contact
• Develop a strategy
– Be audience aware
– Link podcasting activities to larger
communication goals
– Consider local support issues and
communicate with us on your needs
• Think about capture, production, storage, and
publishing as the related facets of podcasting
Issues
• Podcast ease of authoring
• Branding
• iTunes U integration with Oncourse CL
• Video capture in classrooms
• Storage allocation, quota
• Service Boundaries
Streaming
• Coming Soon
– Live High Definition Streaming
– Flash Media Streaming
– Barix MP3 audio encoders for classrooms
• Recent Developments
– High resolution videoconferencing to streaming gateway improvements
– Market shift away from Real
Podcasting and Streaming
at Penn State
Chris MilletManager of Advanced Learning Projects
Teaching and Learning with Technology
Penn State University
• Awareness
• Support
– Training faculty, students, and staff
– Web-based resources
• Facilities
– Equipment and space for production
• Platforms
– Hosting
– Access control
– PSU infrastructure integration
Podcasting & Streaming Overarching Challenges
• Launched Fall 2006
• Currently in Pilot
• Educational and Organizational Podcasting
• Current Usage:
– 150 courses setup for Fall 2007
– 2400+ course podcasts
– 500+ public podcasts
Podcasting at Penn StateOverview
• Strong adoption from foreign language instruction
(student created content)
• Generally used across all disciplines
• Increasing use in multiple-section large enrollment
classes
• Seeing re-use of content across semesters
Podcasting at Penn StateUsage Highlights
• iTunes U
– Podcast hosting by Apple
– Single Sign-on via Cosign
– Access control tied to PSU enrollment data
– Shibboleth integration
– API available for automating maintenance tasks
• Information & Support
– Drupal-based site
– iTunes U launching
Podcasting at Penn StateInfrastructure
• Pilot phase
– 1 full-time support person
• Pedagogical & technical support for faculty, students, and staff
• maintenance of web resources
• iTunes U content maintenance and course setup
– 2 programmers • Automating iTunes U
– 1 central IT support people
• server maintenance
• PSU infrastructure integration
Podcasting at Penn StateSupport Structure
• Making podcasting more approachable
– Automated lecture recording
– Web-based resources and training opportunities
– New production facilities (via Digital Commons)
– Podcasting equipment available at stores and for lending
• Automating iTunes U tasks via API
– Streamline course setup and file uploading
• Using new iTunes U features
– RSS aggregator to integrate external resources
• Centralizing support
Podcasting at Penn StateChallenges & Opportunities
• Features
– Large video hosting
– Password-protection for TEACH Act compliance
• Infrastructure
– Quicktime Streaming Server
– Authentication via LDAP
• Usage
– 235 faculty accounts
• Future directions
– “PSUTube” - YouTube-like interface for students and faculty (Drupal & Flash video)
Streaming at Penn StateOverview
• digital media studios installed at all 20 commonwealth campuses in 2 years (5 currently completed)
• expand capabilities for creating digital media across the commonwealth system
• provide high level of support
– 5 dedicated staff (2 traveling, 3 at main campus)
– One-on-one and group training
– Extensive web-based resources
– Community development
Digital CommonsOverview
• Focusing Digital Commons support on existing services and platforms
– Podcasting
– Blogging
– Streaming
– Adobe Connect
• Streamlining and supporting creation of digital media for these platforms
Digital CommonsSupporting Platforms
• Digital Commons
– web: http://digitalcommons.psu.edu
– email: [email protected]
• Podcasting
– web: http://podcasts.psu.edu
– email: [email protected]
• Blogging
– web: http://blogs.psu.edu
– email: [email protected]
Podcasting & Streaming More
Information
Podcasting and Streaming @ Illinois
CIC TechForumOctober 3, 2007
Leslie Hammersmith
Director, CITES Educational Technologies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Podcasting Overview
• Podcast server launched 2006
– Handful of courses
– Mostly Instructional use
• iTunes U pilot started in 2006
– Supports ”Writing with Video” general education course
– Growing interest, finally passed by Campus Legal
• Formed iTunes U Working Group, Fall 2007
– Looking at Instructional and Organizational uses
– Bringing in more campus stakeholders
– Distributed Administration Model
Streaming Overview
• Campus site license for Helix
– Centralized and decentralized options for hosting
– Production assistance decentralized, hit or miss
• Security Manager Pilot, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
– Authenticated access, protected content
• MediaSite Live
• Future Directions
– Elluminate, other options that exist on campus
– High resolution videoconferencing
– Flash Video replacing Real…..
Podcasting and Streaming
Services• Instructional Computing Services in labs
• Instructional design consulting and training programs
• Multimedia Users Group (informal)
• Faculty Project Assistance
– Podcast portable studio, multimedia workstations
• MediaSite Live recording services
• Department support hit or miss across campus
• Large interest in external marketing
Future Challenges
• Centrally Supported Podcasting/Lecture capture
– Live classroom recording and automatic uploading
– MediaSite Live, Apreso, etc
• Media Production and Post-Production Facilities
• Virtual Collaborative Environments
• Metadata, Storage, Archiving