The Evolution of Maintaining a Dynamic Podcasting Service

1. The Evolution of Maintaining a Dynamic Podcasting Service Presented by The University of Memphis Track 3 Wednesday, June 4 - 8:30 AM 9:15 AM

2. 2 Presenters Steve Terry Director of Technology Utilization – Information Technology James McMurry Systems Administration – Information Technology Joanne Gikas Academic Technology Consultant - Advanced Learning Center

3. What this session will cover: • History of our podcasting service • Technical infrastructure and application services • Active learning environments: Faculty, students and new media content • The evolution of our podcasting service: Challenges for the future 3

4. The University of Memphis is a learner-centered metropolitan research university providing high quality educational experiences while pursuing new knowledge through research, artistic expression, and interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship. 4

5. University of Memphis is one of Tennessee’s three comprehensive doctoral-extensive institutions of higher learning. 21,000 Students - (15,000 undergraduates -- 5100 graduates) Mathematics department has more Erdos number 1 mathematicians than any other research institution in the world Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law Loewenberg School of Nursing Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology FedEx Institute of Technology * Center for Earthquake Research and Information * Institute for Intelligent Systems * Advanced Distributed Learning Workforce Co-Lab 5

6. 2007-2008 Record: 38 - 2 National Championship - Runner-Ups 6

7. History of the Development of Podcast Central Mississippi State University • Simple solution for real-time audio capture • Low-cost hardware for lecture capture iTunes U vs. Podcast Central • Long-term digital media repository • “4-Click” interface and solution for faculty • Ability to integrate with Library System 7

8. Demo of Podcast Central - (Student View) http://podcasts.memphis.edu 8

9. Technology Platform Apple Xserve + Xserve RAID Apache, PHP, Perl Integration Banner Luminis Portal SSO 9

10. Content Flow Content Sources Content Management Content Delivery Podcasting Enabled Classrooms iTunes, other podcatchers Podcast Central Handheld Recorders Direct Download Prepared Media Streaming (Future) Storage 10

11. Content Sources Podcasting Enabled Classrooms Simple interface: log in, plug in and go Handheld Recorders Portable, easy to use Prepared Media Choice of authoring tools Screencasts, Enhanced Podcasts, Video 11

12. Podcasting Enabled Classrooms Classroom Podcast Central Server Instructor Browser Web Interface Step 1 Click “Record” Step 2 Start Stream Listener Step 3 Start Stream Storage Barix Audio Device MP3 Stream Recorder Step 4 MP3 Stream 12

13. Content Management Podcast RSS generation The “hard” part Everything is automatic Content lifecycle Metadata Course schedules Archival 13

14. Content Delivery Podcast Subscriptions – iTunes, others Direct File Download Future: Streaming Audio and Video Live Broadcasting 14

15. Pedagogicalvalue of podcasting • Growth of educational literature in using podcasting in teaching and learning • Podcasting learning: can assist attention, relevance 15

16. Used effectively podcasts can create active learning environments • Engaging the learner • Is podcasting here to stay? • Other podcasting ideas for teaching & learning • enhanced podcast • constructing knowledge/student created content 16

17. What do the faculty say about podcasting? http://podcasts.memphis.edu 17

18. Future of Podcast Central • Survey faculty/student use • Development of new content creation tools • Addition of streaming and live video 18

19. Enhanced Podcasts Challenge traditional methods of delivery of content to students New opportunities for engaged learning via this technology 19

20. https://podcasts.memphis.edu/ podcastinfo@memphis.edu 20