Article: Questioning the Student Use of and Desire for Lecture Podcasts, Laura A. Guertin, Matthew J. Bodek, Sarah E. Zappe, Heeyoung Kim, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 3, No. 2, June 2007. Abstract: The use of audio files, specifically podcasts, has become more visible and accessible to students in higher education. Despite a lack of pedagogical research on the benefits of podcasting, several universities have adopted the technology of using audio for instruction outside of class and sharing of information. Although institutions and instructors have embraced the technology, have the students? A professor in an introductory geoscience course for nonscience majors recorded the audio from classroom lectures and made these audio files available through the university’s online course management system. Student accesses of the audio files were tracked. The students were surveyed about their knowledge on how to utilize the audio files and if they believed the audio to be of some use. Although percentages were not high in terms of student accesses to individual lectures, and a little over half the students were aware of how to access and utilize the files, all of the students reported a perceived value to having lecture podcasts available.

MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT). ‘MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education. JOLT is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December.’

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University Podcast Collection at Open Culture. Very good. [via Distance Learning]

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Open Culture. ‘Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun.’

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Utopia Podcast at LearnOutLoud. ‘Written in 1515, Sir Thomas More’s famous narrative describes what could be considered the perfect society, and questions whether a perfect society is possible.’

Wikipedia: Utopia. ‘Utopia (from Greek: “no place” or “place that does not exist”) is an imaginary island, depicted by Sir Thomas More as a perfect social, legal, and political system. It may be used pejoratively, to refer to a society that is unrealistic and impossible to realize. It has also been used to describe actual communities founded in attempts to create an ideal society.’

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PoducateMe – Practical Solutions for Podcasting in Education. ‘You’ve likely heard of podcasting by now. Countless universities, colleges and K-12 classes worldwide are using the technology to deliver recorded lectures, news and information to students. In fact, nothing has had a greater impact on students since the invention of the paddle. OK, I kid, but I’m also making a point here — podcasting has taken education by storm, and the technology cannot be ignored.
PoducateMe features a comprehensive podcasting guide that reveals exactly how to bring the benefits of podcasting to your classroom. The entire PoducateMe Podcasting Guide can be read online free of charge.’

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TeacherTube. ‘Started in January 2007, TeacherTube is an online media property for people to watch and share Education videos worldwide through a Web experience for everyone.
Anyone can watch videos on TeacherTube. People can see first-hand accounts of great messages from people who care most about education. Video clip sharing on TeacherTube is a new way to expand to a broader audience as more people turn to the internet for more information, not only can they hear you (radio), but know they see you (TeacherTube.com). TeacherTube is helping teachers and students get more out of education all over the world via video sharing.’

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Odiogoâ„¢ announces the launch of a groundbreaking Web 2.0 application that enables text content providers to create new audio media in a snap. Blog entries are converted on the fly into high fidelity voice files ready to play on MP3 players, PDAs, phones, or laptop computers.
Odiogo – a play on “Audio To Go” – extracts blog posts or articles from member news sites and converts them to lightweight MP3 files in seconds. The files can be loaded to any mobile device, giving users anytime-anywhere access to their favorite web content.

How It Works: Odiogoâ„¢ Generates Podcasts of Text Content: Many news and blogs sites available on the Web today leverage the standard distribution format, RSS. Odiogo monitors its content partners’ feeds and automatically creates for each news item small audio files using cutting-edge text-to-speech technology. Unlike many of its predecessors, this new breed of artificial intelligence technology observes punctuation and more natural speech patterns to provide a high fidelity listening experience, which the company is continually fine-tuning.
Odiogo-enabling a content site requires minimal effort and bandwidth. The service is run from Odiogo’s data center, where the MP3 files are stored, and later downloaded to iPodsâ„¢ and other mobile devices, free of charge.

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TeachOutLoud is a revolutionary new service offered by LearnOutLoud.com that allows you to spread your knowledge to the world using audio and video. A simple web-based interface allows you to upload your digital content and sell it, or offer it for free.

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Boston College Front Row. ‘Boston College Front Row is a Web site that offers free access through streaming media to tapes of cultural and scholarly events at Boston College. Front Row is a service of Boston College Magazine and is produced by the Office of Marketing Communications in partnership with the colleges, schools, departments, and programs of the University.’

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LearnOutLoud.com Free Directory. ‘LearnOutLoud.com has scoured the Internet to bring you over 500 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online.’

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Podcasting with mobile phones by Joe Dale: ‘Mobile phones can be a useful tool for those wishing to record or listen to podcasts on the move. By signing up to the web services below, recordings can be configured to be automatically sent to either a specified email address or uploaded to a subscriber’s account and then posted on a blog. Likewise, you can listen to podcasts away from your computer by ringing a dedicated number and supplying the necessary access information. Please note these services are free, but the phone calls you make using them are not.’

Podlinez – Podcasts. On any phone.. ‘Podlinez is a free service that lets you listen to podcasts on your phone. Enter the RSS feed URL for a podcast in the box above to get a phone number you can call to hear it, or browse our directory for a number to try. If your favorite podcast isn’t already in our directory, you can add it immediately and it’ll be available to call within minutes.’

Fonpods: Podcasts on Demand!. ‘Fonpods was founded to provide convenient, cost-free mobile access to digital audio content through the simplest, most ubiquitous consumer device – the phone. Fonpods proprietary technology gives consumers a simple way to access their content and at the same time dramatically enhance the distribution channels for podcasts and other digital audio content. Fonpods eliminates the management and provisioning complexity for a user accessing podcasts and other digital audio content by simply providing this access through their mobile, fixed-line, or VoIP phone. In doing so, Fonpods significantly increases portability of podcasts without the need for additional expensive consumer devices and provides the opportunity for “on-the-go” and “impulse” access to podcasts.’

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