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Mar
3
(2006)
Podcasting at the U of C
Filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: ipod, podcasting, ucalgary.
Well, this just came over the wires, so I guess it’s official. Looks like The University of Calgary is about to do podcasting in a big way.
The University of Calgary will be the first university in the country to introduce podcasting on a large scale when it launches four courses in the summer and fall featuring portable MP3 technology as a teaching tool.
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The U of C will introduce podcasting in four courses that involve about 700 students: iCOMS 201, Introduction to Communications Studies, summer 06; iENGL 231, Introduction to Fiction, winter 07; iCHEM 351, Organic Chemistry I, Fall 06; and iSOCI 201, Introduction to Sociology, Fall 06.
I guess I’m going to have to get around to putting on those podcasting workshops I was promising. Topics like “how to record/publish a podcast” and “how to make a podcast that doesn’t suck” and “podcasting isn’t just recording the whole damned lecture” etc…
Does this mean I can put in for a new iPod to show the video stuff, and a Big Microphone to demo recording? We’re putting the little “i” in front of the cool new courses, too…
Update: Just did a search of the UCalgary domain to see what kind of stuff we’re doing with podcasting. The only results that came up were from my blog, and the wiki page I started 
Pretty cool! I would say a good iPod is essential, definitely put in for that. I would also say headphones, a good set of speakers, a top quality mike, 8-track, a mixing desk .. ;O)
Cole – no clue. The first I heard of it was the press release. Like I hinted, the only previous mentioning of podcasting on campus was by myself… I’m trying to find out about the solution used – haven’t heard a word about it yet.
Welcome to the party … how is your school planning on making this hapen? Do you know if it is an end to end solution or are these “one offs” in a handful of courses with lots of support?
Hey D’Arcy,
I thought you would have been in the middle fo this. Would you care to write up a short post for Blog@Calgary and give us all some background?
They have started to do this at the U of Buffalo on an informal scale (some of the chem profs on their own) and it has worked out pretty well…my little brother is there and he loves it.