Podcasting in Higher Education Workshop

• October 27th - 10:00 am - 3:00 pm - Southwest Tenn Community College, Union Campus, Room P-100

• December 1st - 10:00 am - 3:00 pm - Northeast State, Blountville, Library L226

Choose the most convenient day and location!

Enrollment will be strictly limited to 20 participants.
To register, please e-mail Sandy McFarlin at sandy.mcfarlin@rcenter.org

Workshop Agenda

• What is Podcasting?
• Listening to Podcasts.
• Educational Applications of Podcasting.
• Technology behind Podcasting.
• Creating your first Podcast.
• Embedding your Podcast in your course.

Podcasting is a method of publishing audio programs via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in late 2004, largely due to automatic downloading of audio onto portable players or personal computers. Podcasting is distinct from other types of online media delivery because of its subscription model, which uses a feed (such as RSS or Atom) to deliver an enclosed file. Podcasting enables independent producers to create self-published, syndicated "radio shows," and gives broadcast radio programs a new distribution method. Listeners may subscribe to feeds using "podcatching" software (a type of aggregator), which periodically checks for and downloads new content automatically. Most podcatching software enables the user to copy podcasts to portable music players. Any digital audio player or computer with audio-playing software can play podcasts. - www.wikipedia.org