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Projects in Foreign Languages and Literatures using Mobile Media Units
Editor: James Cain 1
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March 15, 2006
MIT & Podcasting: Sharing Experiences
Web Publishers User Group meeting
Day: Thursday, March 23, 2006
Time: 12:00 noon–1:00 pm
Location: Building N42 Demo Center
Refreshments will be served.
Open to the general public.
This month's guests at the Web Publishers User Group meeting will be Larry Gallagher from Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) and Suzana Lisanti from MIT's Homepage Team. They will discuss their experience with video podcast creation and MIT podcast branding.
An open discussion of the use of podcasting, including Q&A and brainstorming of ideas, will follow the presentations. On hand to answer questions and share their experience will be Robert Wolfe, metadata specialist from the MIT Libraries, Stuart Peloquin from Residential Networking, Josh Aresty from the Language Learning and Resources Center, David Mycue from AMPS, Katie Livingston-Vale from Academic Computing, and Lisa Mayer from Web Communications Services.
For more information, contact webpub@mit.edu.
March 08, 2006
MIT Podcasts: Listening to Class Materials on the Go
Lisa Mayer
Web and Database Consultant
IS&T Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD)
When you see students walking on campus with headphones plugged in their ears, they may be studying for finals instead of grooving to their favorite tunes. MIT faculty members are discovering innovative ways to bring class materials to the technology-savvy students of the 21st century through "podcasting": a technology for distributing multimedia recordings over the Internet. Educators can post lectures and other course materials on the web as video and audio files. Students subscribe and new materials are automatically downloaded to their computers.
This article explains how podcasting works, what software, hardware, and skills one needs to create and use podcasts, and what resources exist at MIT to assist faculty and departments who want to create educational podcasts. Educational podcasting is also the central theme for publications in the Ed Tech Times this month; look for upcoming articles and announcements from IS&T Academic Computing, IS&T Client Support Services, Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), and the MIT Libraries.
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