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NECC Podcast Interview

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While I was at NECC, Apple had a group there doing podcasts with Apple Distinguished Educators … kinda cool seeing my name in the new podcast directory in iTunes! At any rate, here is the link directly to the entry. It was a lot of fun talking with Barnaby Wasson the other day about all sorts of stuff. We decided not to do our little talk back at the hotel and walked down the street to a little spot to have some lunch and talk. I imagine it was a funny sight to see us sitting in the corner with the audio guys (great guys by the way … Kevin and Ross were tops) hanging boom mics at us … I love the background noises — the coffee grinders, people talking, and the music make it so much more authentic. At any rate, if you’re interested take a listen. The pictures below let you in on a little secret … there was actually a crew there.


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Podcasting Event at NECC

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I went to the podcasting event at NECC last night. I was blown away by the number of people that showed up — they had to do a second session to get most of them in. Really sort of makes you think there is somthing big to this podcasting thing … at any rate, I had a chance to talk with the speaker, Barnaby Wasson afterwards and I captured it as, you guessed it, a podcast. Barnaby talked about what podcasting is and some interesting and novel uses for it. I am still just blown away by how packed the room was. Apple demonstrated, in a very complete way, how podcasting works in iTunes 4.9 … what was even more impressive was how it works with the iPod — in a word, wow! The bookmarks, with the ability to change and annotate images is just amazing. I downloaded the tool that lets you do that (still in beta), but it a terminal app at the moment. All in all, well done Apple! My little iTunes problems aside, this is an amazing point upgrade.

The other thing that really impresses me about the whole iPod/iTunes space is the team that Apple has pushing it. They really believe they have a device that can change what we do in and out of the classroom. Its always great to see smart people with passion talking about what they are doing. Nice job! Also, Barnaby is a great speaker and I can see why he is an Apple Distinguished Educator. At any rate, listen to the Podcast … sorry its a little big … I’m in a hurry to get it out there.

iTunes 4.9 … Podcasting Support for the Masses

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Quick one, then off to Philly … Apple released iTunes 4.9 with podcasting support. We are mainstream now! It looks very slick — so far. I really haven’t a chance to play with it, but I am hoping it works as advertised. Cool.

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Update: Worked like a charm on my wife’s computer and my 12″ PowerBook, but when I installed it on my machine with my 30+ GB of music, iTunes 4.9 blew my library away … the music is still on my hard drive, but iTunes doesn’t see any of it. They better get this figured out … I use playcount and last played to power a good majority of my playlists. Any help?

Off to Philly: NECC Bound

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I’ll be leaving for my old stomping grounds, Philadelphia, PA tomorrow morning for the NECC conference. I’m sure I’ll be dropping some posts in here over the course of the next few days … if they have good wifi. You know, that makes all the difference at a conference these days — solid wifi gives us all a chance to open the confernce up to so many others … let alone the huge amount of word of mouth goodness they get via all the bloggers in the seats. At any rate, if you’re there, look for me … and if you decide to go to the podcasting event, really look for me! See you in Philly!

Where I’m Spending My Time

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I haven’t been posting here all that much lately … things have been nuts. Between heavy travel and major changes at work, I’ve been a little too crazy to focus for some good posts. I have been spending all my blog time over at the Blogs@PGSIT. You should keep an eye on it the next five weeks … I am betting it is a good thing. I am even using the tools to design and manage my course materials. Oh, subscribe to the RSS feed, there is going to be a lot of podcasting going on — Apple, I could use that iTunes 4.9 (hint, hint, nudge, nudge)

Next week, I start teaching at PGSIT and I run down to NECC in Philly. Hey, I get to go back to my old stomping grounds … I am doing several things, but one night I am taking part in the Podcasting Event … should be a good time. I’ll be hanging out with some old and new friends. So all in all, I’ll be busy but having a good time. Seriously, keep an eye on the Blogs@PGSIT — I think it’ll be interesting.

ID3 Tags for Podcasts

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I am running down the PGSIT 2005 assignment track now that I am starting to have an idea of what we are going to do. I wrote a little bit about it yesterday — I even got a few emails from people with some ideas that I’ll share later. Today I just wanted to drop this great podcast resource in so I’d have it for the scholars. This one is from Podcast 411 and its a little tutorial on how to use meta data and ID3 tags the right way. Very useful.

Podcasting for Education … Sparking An Idea

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I was pointed to this by a couple of people and I thought it would be worth a quick post … The NY Times ran a piece about how a professor at Marymount Manhattan College has been remixing media to make museum tours more interesting to students, With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour – New York Times. Here’s a quick quote:

The creators of this guide, David Gilbert, a professor of communication at Marymount Manhattan College, and a group of his students, describe it on their Web site as a way to “hack the gallery experience” or “remix MoMa,” which they do with a distinctly collegiate blend of irony, pop music and heavy breathing. It is one of the newest adaptations in the world of podcasting – downloading radio shows, music and kitchen-sink audio to an MP3 player.

It got me thinking about the upcoming PA Governor’s School for Information Technology and how we could have the kids do the same thing … I was talking with my wife, Kristin — who by the way was quoted in the New York Times herself the other day — about how we could use this concept to have the kids create sound seeing tours of the PSU/PGSIT experience. What we’ve been doing each of the last six years we’ve been running the program is to task the kids with a large, overarching IT-related challenge. In the past we’ve had them figure out how to take a large bank online, how to create a next generation (legal) music distribution company, how to secure our airports, and more.

This is the last year for the PGSIT and we’d like to do something that pulls together all the stuff we’ve been looking at in the open source, podcasting, and the read/write web space. I think we’ll have the kids compete to create a design for the PGSIT Alumni Site that pulls together blogging, discussions, podcasts, and potentially a friendster like set of opportunities. You know, a space that they’d actually use … At any rate, that’s what I’m thinking … anyone have ideas out there?

iTunes, Podcasting & Teaching … We’ll See

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I wasn’t even going to bother with this … seems like forever ago that it hit the press, but Steve unleashed a little tidbit about native podcasting support in the next version of iTunes. That’s a nice step forward … here are a couple of pointers to some stories about it all.

I guess I expected this given all the smiles and winks I’d been given the last six months or so when talking with my friends from Apple about iTunes. What was really nice to see was the statement about adding upload functionality to the service. Downloading podcasts is a nice little feature, but the upload and share opportunity is what unlocks the important doors. When you consider iTunes is a free, cross platform solution you can see how much impact it could have on our classrooms. I’ve seen iTunes as a powerful content management solution for some time and the fact that Apple has continued to quietly add features just reinforces that (think pdf and video support) it is moving more in that direction.

I was linking into the iTMS from my Edison Services Syllabus during the Fall semester to point students to audio books I had listed to and music I was trying to turn them on to. This takes it a step further … if I understand it correctly we can all be stars in the iTMS … but that’s a big if … I am holding out to actually see these upload capabilities, but if they are there we’ll all be talking about that quite a bit more. Think how cool it’ll be to put your own podcasts into the store, author iMixes that has your stuff and a whole boatload of real stuff — audio books, songs, and other podcasts. A single click from my syllabus and students have an entire lecture series ready to go. The possibilities could be endless. I’m really looking forward to testing this out … does anyone think it’ll actually work this way? All I know is that I teach this Summer, this Fall, & this Spring so I’ll be pushing the limits of this stuff!