Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less
Already common among consumers, the sharing of informally produced personal audio and video content is rapidly moving into academia as a form of personal expression and as a means of information delivery. The basic concept of sharing personal experiences that began with text as the medium (personal websites and blogs, for instance) is extending into other media as the tools to capture and create audio and video are maturing.
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Relevance for Teaching, Learning & Creative Expression
- enhances learning in oral and auditory fields (foreign languages, speech pathology)
- encourages creative synthesis of audio or video resources from a variety of sources
Examples
- Drama faculty at the North Carolina School for the Arts are using iPods to record accent and dialogue for students to study. A faculty member from design and production uses iPods for several things, including creation of weekly "listening lists."
- A Women's Studies Course at California State University, Fullerton includes an assignment for students to "sign up for one of the following development teams: vblogging (video blogging), blogging, podcasting, class website, video, cell net. Each team will be responsible for developing a project that uses one of these technologies as an intervention into gender inequality."
For Further Reading
Publishing a Podcast to iTunes
A single page of instructions on distributing podcasts and other recorded media via iTunes, using RSS. http://phobos.apple.com/static/iTunesRSS.html
Vlog Map
How many video blogs are there in the world? Well, this map will give you an idea. Click a pin on the map to view a blog and find out who keeps it and where they live. http://www.vlogmap.org/
SixApart Simplifies Video Blogging
(Shelly Solheim, eWeek, October 26, 2005) One blog service provider makes it easy to add video. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1877776,00.asp