Inside this Issue
- Focus on E-learning
- E-learning website and blog
- Resource guide to e-learning software and resources
- Sympodcasting
- Instantly Collaborative Spaces
- RSS Feeds and Public Health
- SPH Podcasting Update
- E-learning Guide
- PHLI Summer Schedule
- E-learning Bibliography
- Annual User Survey
- Announcing Merit Online
- Posters and Public Health
- PHLI Technology Update
- New Web Statistics Software
- New Staff Bios
- Librarian Exchange
- Staff Notes
- A Day in the Life
SPH Podcating Update
Podcasting at SPH expanded into video podcasting for more HMP Exec Ed courses. Podcasts continue to be the choice medium for a growing number of students who re-inforce their live learning using these asynchronous methods. In the residential programs, Podcasting began in Fall 2002 with experimental podcasting in Professor Vic Strecher's HBHE 600 course (link to previous newsletter article here) and continued in his Winter HBHE 651 course.
In another class, podcasting provided a fresher delivery mechanism for an existing need. Professor Leon Wyszewianski used to provide audio-tapes of his classes and students checked out the tape in the library. This process was digitized using podcasting with a slight twist. Instead of delivering the classroom audio using an RSS feed mechanism, CTools's built-in features were used to inform and solicit student downloads. Also, the digital audio was post-produced to amplify student comments and questions, which would typically go uncaptured on audio tape, thus enhancing the listening value of the content.
Podcasting is now an established method of content delivery which is expected to go to a whole new level with sympodcasting. You can read more about sympodcasting lectures in a feature article in this issue.
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