Video Podcasting: When, Where and How It's Currently Being Used for Instruction
In this article, the authors desribes the uses colleges are having with podcasting. They summarize the use in language classes, storing photos and audio clips, lectures, and listening to podcasts. They especially like the concept of the iPod being a body computer, not a stay at home or classroom computer that can't be moved. An on time, any time personal device.
The authors next go into the production of video podcasts or vodcasts. They mention the various Apple software programs that can assist a producer with completing a vodcast. The authors completed two 30 second episodes and it took them 2 days to complete their vodcasts. Though experienced with producing videos, they seemed surprised that it took that long to produce their episodes - They are cautious at recommending this media for the novice producer. They leave you with the feeling that future innovations will need to be designed to make this media more user friendly.
The authors point out evidence that this technology has quite a large learning curve and not many teachers will be using the vodcasts until the production software improves. With the publishing date being from 2006, I'm going to look into more recent articles to find out how folks are overcoming the stumbling blocks to vodcasting.
Reference:
Brown, A and Green, T, Video Podcasting: When, Where and How It's Currently Being Used for Instruction, Annual proceedings of the AECT, 2006.
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