Podcasting Uses

• Teaching and learning (inclusion of podcasts in

Oncourse, use by schools/faculty, use by

Continuing Studies, etc.)

• Marketing and publicity (both internal and

external)

• Support and education (both internal and

external)

• Other mission related use by faculty, staff, and

students to support research and creative

activity, as well as provide public service

Podcasting Services

• Oncourse CL podcasting tool

• iTunes U

• IU Podcast Portal

• IT Training and Education Programs

• Faculty iPod Program

• Podcast Producer (proof of concept)

Oncourse CL Podcasting Tool

• http://oncourse.iu.edu

• A community source podcast tool created by the

Sakai partnership

• Educational content for courses and for groups

using Oncourse CL

• Internal, class only, group only

• Authenticated access

Our Message to Departments

• Indentify a podcast point of contact

• Develop a strategy

– Be audience aware

– Link podcasting activities to larger

communication goals

– Consider local support issues and

communicate with us on your needs

• Think about capture, production, storage, and

publishing as the related facets of podcasting

Issues

• Podcast ease of authoring

• Branding

• iTunes U integration with Oncourse CL

• Video capture in classrooms

• Storage allocation, quota

• Service Boundaries

Streaming

• Coming Soon

– Live High Definition Streaming

– Flash Media Streaming

– Barix MP3 audio encoders for classrooms

• Recent Developments

– High resolution videoconferencing to streaming gateway improvements

– Market shift away from Real

Podcasting and Streaming

at Penn State

Chris MilletManager of Advanced Learning Projects

Teaching and Learning with Technology

Penn State University

chrismillet@psu.edu

• Awareness

• Support

– Training faculty, students, and staff

– Web-based resources

• Facilities

– Equipment and space for production

• Platforms

– Hosting

– Access control

– PSU infrastructure integration

Podcasting & Streaming Overarching Challenges

• Launched Fall 2006

• Currently in Pilot

• Educational and Organizational Podcasting

• Current Usage:

– 150 courses setup for Fall 2007

– 2400+ course podcasts

– 500+ public podcasts

Podcasting at Penn StateOverview

• Strong adoption from foreign language instruction

(student created content)

• Generally used across all disciplines

• Increasing use in multiple-section large enrollment

classes

• Seeing re-use of content across semesters

Podcasting at Penn StateUsage Highlights

• iTunes U

– Podcast hosting by Apple

– Single Sign-on via Cosign

– Access control tied to PSU enrollment data

– Shibboleth integration

– API available for automating maintenance tasks

• Information & Support

– Drupal-based site

– iTunes U launching

Podcasting at Penn StateInfrastructure

• Pilot phase

– 1 full-time support person

• Pedagogical & technical support for faculty, students, and staff

• maintenance of web resources

• iTunes U content maintenance and course setup

– 2 programmers • Automating iTunes U

– 1 central IT support people

• server maintenance

• PSU infrastructure integration

Podcasting at Penn StateSupport Structure

• Making podcasting more approachable

– Automated lecture recording

– Web-based resources and training opportunities

– New production facilities (via Digital Commons)

– Podcasting equipment available at stores and for lending

• Automating iTunes U tasks via API

– Streamline course setup and file uploading

• Using new iTunes U features

– RSS aggregator to integrate external resources

• Centralizing support

Podcasting at Penn StateChallenges & Opportunities

• Features

– Large video hosting

– Password-protection for TEACH Act compliance

• Infrastructure

– Quicktime Streaming Server

– Authentication via LDAP

• Usage

– 235 faculty accounts

• Future directions

– “PSUTube” - YouTube-like interface for students and faculty (Drupal & Flash video)

Streaming at Penn StateOverview

• digital media studios installed at all 20 commonwealth campuses in 2 years (5 currently completed)

• expand capabilities for creating digital media across the commonwealth system

• provide high level of support

– 5 dedicated staff (2 traveling, 3 at main campus)

– One-on-one and group training

– Extensive web-based resources

– Community development

Digital CommonsOverview

• Focusing Digital Commons support on existing services and platforms

– Podcasting

– Blogging

– Streaming

– Adobe Connect

• Streamlining and supporting creation of digital media for these platforms

Digital CommonsSupporting Platforms

• Digital Commons

– web: http://digitalcommons.psu.edu

– email: digitalcommons@psu.edu

• Podcasting

– web: http://podcasts.psu.edu

– email: podcasts@psu.edu

• Blogging

– web: http://blogs.psu.edu

– email: blogs@psu.edu

Podcasting & Streaming More

Information

Podcasting and Streaming @ Illinois

CIC TechForumOctober 3, 2007

Leslie Hammersmith

Director, CITES Educational Technologies

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

lkhammer@uiuc.edu

Podcasting Overview

• Podcast server launched 2006

– Handful of courses

– Mostly Instructional use

• iTunes U pilot started in 2006

– Supports ”Writing with Video” general education course

– Growing interest, finally passed by Campus Legal

• Formed iTunes U Working Group, Fall 2007

– Looking at Instructional and Organizational uses

– Bringing in more campus stakeholders

– Distributed Administration Model

Streaming Overview

• Campus site license for Helix

– Centralized and decentralized options for hosting

– Production assistance decentralized, hit or miss

• Security Manager Pilot, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008

– Authenticated access, protected content

• MediaSite Live

• Future Directions

– Elluminate, other options that exist on campus

– High resolution videoconferencing

– Flash Video replacing Real…..

Podcasting and Streaming

Services• Instructional Computing Services in labs

• Instructional design consulting and training programs

• Multimedia Users Group (informal)

• Faculty Project Assistance

– Podcast portable studio, multimedia workstations

• MediaSite Live recording services

• Department support hit or miss across campus

• Large interest in external marketing

Future Challenges

• Centrally Supported Podcasting/Lecture capture

– Live classroom recording and automatic uploading

– MediaSite Live, Apreso, etc

• Media Production and Post-Production Facilities

• Virtual Collaborative Environments

• Metadata, Storage, Archiving