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May
6
(2005)
iPodder.org Educational Directory Updated (finally)
Filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: blendedlearning, podcasting.
I took some time last night to process the backlog of new educational podcast notifications. I added 16 new podcasts to the iPodder.org Educational category – including a new General Education category for stuff that just doesn’t fit into K-12 or Higher Education.
There are now 31 education-related podcasts listed. And it’s growing every week, it seems…
I do have to say that the iPodder.org category browsing interface is pretty sucktacular (although consistent with Radio/Manilla interfaces). Click targets are too small (why not make the title clickable, instead of just the meaningless icon?), and you can’t drill down easily – no expand/contract categories, you have to actually move up/down the hierarchy. Also, why is it a central collection of podcast links? Why not collect links from the wild, using tags? That would remove the current bottleneck for posting new links. *cough*sorry*ahem*
Questions about the ipodder.org directory:
-Is there a backlog? I submitted my literature game podcast under the Books category two weeks ago or so and haven’t seen it show up yet. It looks like it’s one of the categories that Adam is still maintaining himself?
- Maybe it should go in the education category. At least that’s where the most interest in it has been so far.
Each category is handled by a separate volunteer, so I don’t know what the backlog could be for the “literature” category.
I guess I’m the backlog for the education category – I get a chance to update it about once every 2 weeks or so. If you submit the info for your podcast using the link on the “educational” category, I’ll add it to the “General Education” section the next time I do an update (I’ve got a couple of new podcasts to list, so it will likely get done in the next couple of days).
How do you see the education directory breaking up into sub categories as you go forward? My directory is now up to 57 education related podcasts and I’m starting to think about subdividing.
Alex
The biggest problem that I see is the growing number of centralized directories (which are, ironically enough, decentralized). You’ve got 57 in your directory. I have a subset of that in iPodder.org, there are several other directories in action.
Where do users go? Which is “right”? There needs to be a better, more fluid way of cataloging these things. I’m seriously considering options wrt the iPodder.org directory – it’s just feeling wrong lately.