Educational Development

I'm here with Ken talking about Podcasting out audio recordings of his lectures, to compliment presentations that are available for download. Here's some audio I recorded, talking to Ken about Podcasting, and demonstrating the podcasting process.

1. I showed Ken the audio/usb drive recorder I use
2. Loaded the WAV file to the desktop
3. Opened the free and easy audio recorder Audacity and exported the WAV file to MP3
4. Uploaded that MP3 to OurMedia.org
5. Took the link and posted here in my work blog.

The next steps are to go to Feedburner and obtain a Podcast feed so that whenever I load an MP3 to this blog, those who are subscribed to the Podcast feed will be able to just plug their player into a network computer and the audio files will automatically download for them thanks to the Feedburner Podcast feed we set up. Those who are not subscribed to the Podcast feed can still subscribe to the Blog's Feed instead, or simply manually come to this blog and download what they need.

I pointed out to Ken that there are regular workshops being offered by the EDC on how to do all this. Ken will look into the scheduled workshops and nominate which workshops he'd initially like to attend.

Ken and I also talked about Open Courseware and Creative Commons licensing. I showed Ken the Open Courseware finder, Wikiversity, and Wikipedia for tasters on how much free and reusable, quality content is out there. I showed Ken how some of the larger universities in the USA are using Creative Commons licenses to enable their Open Courseware initiatives, and how easy it is to use the license. I encouraged Ken to attend the finding and reusing digital resources workshop. I explained that at the moment our organisation doesn't have a policy that addresses Creative Commons or Open Courseware opportunities. We discussed the difference between the Intellectual Property of the Lecturer, and the Copyrights of the Organisation...

Here is an example of a Creative Commons license being applied to this blog post:


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