The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
I added a comment to the page reminding the author that Classcaster is actually the system that CALI Radio runs on. It is important for people to know that this is not a one blog pony:)
The terrific Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Education has been featuring lectures and other educational materials at CALI Radio, otherwise known as the ClassCaster, for several months now.
A natural extension for podcasting. Between Lawyers: technology + culture + law
pLog, which provides the blogging power for Classcaster, has changed its name to LifeType.
LifeType Development Journal
The formerly known as pLog project has decided to get a facelift including a new name, new image and new logo. This facelift is related to the project’s cooperation with Amazon, current owners of the “plog” trademark in the United States. On behalf of the project, we would like to thank Amazon for their collaboration and help. Other companies would have chosen to sue but instead Amazon decided to cooperate and had a lot of patience with us.
This post concerns an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion. It was developed by the BBC Radio & Music Interactive R&D team – for this project consisting of myself, Tristan Ferne, Chris Bowley, Helen Crowe, Paul Clifford and Bronwyn Van Der Merwe. Although the project is a BBC project, all the speculation and theorising around the edges is my own and does not necessarily represent the opinion of my department or the BBC in general.
By way of correction, we are not using Shockwave to record podcasts. We are embedding a Flash MP3 player object in the post to play the audio, but the recording is done using a telephone connection or by uploading locally recorded MP3s. We are using the open source Musicplayer at the moment, but are developing our own player that is more tuned to playing single MP3s from a blog post.
RSS4Lib:: Shockwave Audio and Weblogs
The Neef Law Library blog at Wayne State University is using Shockwave audio files to record blog content.
Classcaster features an Asterisk PBX on the backend that allows us to record phone calls and then generate a blog post containing the MP3 recording of the call. Blogging services are provided through a modified version of pLog. Taken together these tools allow Classcaster to be a full featured blogging and podcasting platform.
To create a Windows Media enhanced podcast, you need an app with support for Windows Media script editing. The free choice is Windows Media File Editor, which is bundled in the Windows Media Encoder download.
Windows Media Enhanced Podcast
Things to do to make those podcasts even more exciting. Requires the audio be in .WMA format. Should come out much like the enhanced podcasts favored by Apple and iTunes. via Make.
Students in the designated classes subscribe to the lectures by going to the CSS Web site and copying a link into their iTunes or a similar program. After that, the program automatically picks up each lecture after it’s recorded. The student simply goes to his or her personal computer, opens iTunes and either listens to it there or transfers it to a portable MP3 player.
uwnews.org | University of Washington News and Information
Add U of Washington to the growing list of colleges and universities that are using podcasting as a tool for distributing course material to students. It makes a lot of sense. Here’s my question: what about law schools? CALI is trying to provide law schools with tools to do this, but uptake seems to be limited. I’m not sure why folks don’t want to try this technology now before they start getting battered by students and faculty who want it. It is a bit frustrating.
The Chronicle has a great article (5 day link) on what it refers to as ‘coursecasting’. Those of you who have been following along will recognize many of the things mentioned in the article as central to the ideas that led us to develop Classcaster. With Classcaster, law faculty are able to try out podcasting right now without having to go through all the hassle usually associated with trying something new. All you need to do is log in, dial up, and podcast.
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Lectures on the Go
More and more professors are turning to iPods and other digital audio devices to record their lectures and send them to their students, in what many are calling “coursecasting.” The portability of coursecasting, its proponents say, makes the technology ideal for students who fall behind in class or those for whom English is a second language.
The Neef Law Library blog at Wayne State University is using Shockwave audio files to record blog content. A slightly different form of podcasting, but it works very nicely without the ‘pod’ or iTunes. It uses ClassCaster as the underlying technology.
RSS4Lib:: Shockwave Audio and Weblogs
Another meniton of Classcaster. Word is getting out.
Interesting comment. At today’s Duke podcasting symposium someone asked an Apple engineer about Apple’s plans for video and he said that the laptop was the perfect video iPod and video on phones didn’t really work.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sensing a trend.
BetaNews | iPod Chief Not Excited About iTunes Phone
In an interview with the German daily Berliner Zeitung on Monday, Apple vice president and iPod division head Jon Rubenstein expressed his feelings on the convergence of music devices and cell phones, saying the devices are best left separate.
Brief article with a number of links to various podcasting efforts that include the use of iTunes.