Projects in Foreign Languages and Literatures using Mobile Media Units

Editor: James Cain 1

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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.

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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Crosstalk Seminar: Prof. Peter Donaldson on iCampus Cross Media Annotation System

Speaker: Peter S. Donaldson
Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Head of Literature Faculty
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Day: Friday, Feb 24, 2006
Time: 1:00p–2:30p
Location: 1-375
Open to the general public
Cost: free

The iCampus Cross Media Annotation System (XMAS) provides tools to enhance the use of video and image collections in humanities courses and in any subject in which precise reference to visual materials is needed. XMAS can be used in conjunction with image and text collections, and is currently optimized for use with commercially available DVDs as video source. XMAS allows users to rapidly define segments of film which can be replayed by clicking on automatically created links that can be saved in a list or dragged and dropped into discussion threads or online essays.

Sponsor(s): Academic Computing
For more information, contact:
Katie Vale
253-0115
et-consult@mit.edu

MIT "Blogs": Freshman Seminar Highlights the Educational Value of Online Journals

Katie Livingston-Vale, Ed.D.
Team Leader, Educational Technology Consultants
IS&T Academic Computing

Online journals called "weblogs" or "blogs" are now being employed in MIT courses to teach students how to reflect on experiences and how to share their reflections in a written form with classmates, teachers, and other audiences. This article describes in detail the use of weblogs in a freshman advising seminar during the Fall 2005 semester and also points to other uses of blogs for educational purposes at MIT.

If after reading the article you would like to use a blog in your MIT class, be advised that technical support for class blogs is now provided by the educational technology consultants at MIT Academic Computing. The following services will be available, on a per project basis:

• Needs assessment and recommendation for an appropriate blog technology.
• Development of blog-enabled class web sites; if needed, with certificate authentication.
• Hosting of the web sites on servers maintained by MIT Academic Computing.
• Training on blog technology for faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants.

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