Support - Online Instructional Technology Help
The student body has adopted the iPod and other digital players in great numbers. These devices provide access content (currently mostly music) anytime, anywhere. UGA’s peer and aspirant institutions have programs that exploit the iPod’s ubiquity by providing podcasts of lectures and presentations. The College of Education has a site at iTunesU where we have posted special presentations and a dozen lectures.
The Center for Teaching and Learning conducted a field trial of podcasting technology in the Fall of 2008. Feedback indicates that while faculty would like to make more content available, configuring a classroom to record lectures is an obstacle.
The College of Education’s ‘Pod Cart’ project provides a simple, portable tool that faculty and students can use to record and podcast their presentations with little advance notice.
The unit consists of a iMac, video camera, microphones and other minor accessories, bundled together on a rolling cart. The cart components have been specifically selected and configured to record and post (in podcast format) lectures and presentations.
A use scenario is as follows: user checks out cart from OIT-Media Services, plug in the cart, turn on equipment, login into LAN, position cart to capture presentation, don microphone if necessary, start presentation recording (single button click), stop recording and post to USG podcast server (single button click), shutdown equipment, unplug and return cart.
