iTunes U: Podcasting Made Easy

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iTunes U Podcasting Made Easy
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Presenters

• Dr. John Crooks
• Associate Provost, U.P./Director, Distributed
  Learning
• Mike Substelny
• Instructor, Fiscal Year Faculty
• Mary Jane Pasky
• Coordinator, Distributed Learning

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Forces Behind Podcasting
Videostreaming Dr. Roy Church,
President
Podcasting
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Dead Ends

• Computer Services Department
• Instructional Television and Media Services
• MacIntosh Faculty

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Roadblocks

• Internal Resistance
• Technical support issues
• Employee work load
• Bandwidth and server capacity
• Fear of Macintosh server!
• Faculty intellectual property

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Light at the End of the Tunnel

• WEBMASTER

DUH!
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Apple Representative Visits

• How to make podcast/vodcast
• Download podcast
• Showed iPods
• Showed iTunes U beta sites
• Reviewed iTunes U agreement (existing content
  mandatory)

Its Free
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Visited University of Michigan School of Dentistry

• MacIntosh computer in back of lecture hall
• Student managed uploads to iTunes U

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First ProcessPreviously Developed Content

• Videostream lectures
• Audio to mp3
• Video to mp4
• Create RSS feeds using Vodcaster
• Upload files on web server
• Give link to instructor
• Instructor put link in ANGEL

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Purchased Digital Voice Recorders

• Olympus WS-100
• (records wma format)
• Hand-picked faculty to start podcasting

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Original Process for Live Lectures
Webmaster
Create RSS feed for course
Send link to DL
Distance Learning (DL)
Is Webmaster on vacation?
Yes
DL send link to faculty
Faculty
Delay
No
Place link in ANGEL
Daily Process
Add daily lecture files to server
Record lecture
Send confirmation to DL that process is complete
Upload file to computer
Email file to DL
Is DL on vacation?
Yes
Delay
No
Email mp3 or burn CD and hand deliver
Change file to mp3 and add ID3 tags
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Problems with Original Process

• Labor intensive
• Email server issues
• Security issues
• Involved coordination between three
  departments
• Long, slow process
• Resulted in student complaints

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2006 iTunes U Timeline
Feb 3 Received Application from Apple
Feb 18 Submitted Application to Apple
March 6 Application accepted
April 25 Received Service Agreement
June 2 Signed Service Agreement
February March April May June
July August September
July 17 Received Starter Kit
August 8 Conversion to Windows complete, begin
building LCCC iTunes Site and Webpages
August 30 Authentication complete
September 11 Open LCCC iTunes U, train Faculty
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Distance Learning/Webmaster Start of Term Process
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Faculty Daily Process
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• Podcasting Effectiveness Data
• From One Course Section

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• Podcasting Effectiveness Data
• From One Course Section

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Student Comments

• Very convenient! Very clear! Great tool for
  learning!
• Unable to download. Fellow student copied to
  CD for me.
• I think it was a great idea and it's nice to
  listen to the lecture again and be able to press
  pause and rewind and take better notes from
  class. I hope future classes offer this
  service. (contd)

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Student Comments (contd)

• I didn't use podcasting much, but when there
  were times that I was unable to make it to
  class (2-3 times) it was very useful.

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iTunes UWeekly Usage Report
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Demonstrations

• Import Audio File
• Upload Podcast

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Questions/Discussion
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Contact Information

• Dr. John Crooks
• 1-800-995-5222, ext. 7793
• jcrooks_at_lorainccc.edu
• Mike Substelny
• 1-800-995-5222, ext. 7084
• msubstel_at_lorainccc.edu
• Mary Jane Pasky
• 1-800-995-5222, ext. 7684
• mpasky_at_lorainccc.edu
• Joe Querin (Technical Expert)
• 1-800-995-5222, ext. 7060
• jquerin_at_lorainccc.edu