Maricopa has signed on for iTunesU. So What is it?
How to Upload podcasts to iTunes U
From the Apple Website:
Education evolves.
iTunes U has arrived, giving higher education institutions an ingenious way to get audio and video content out to their students. Presentations, performances, lectures, demonstrations, debates, tours, archival footage — school is about to become even more inspiring.
Designed to be completely intuitive, iTunes U is based on the iTunes Store, where millions of people already get their music, movies, and TV shows. Now there’s an area of the iTunes Store devoted entirely to education, where it’s easy to search thousands of audio and video files from schools across the country.
Colleges and universities build their own iTunes U sites. Faculty post content they create for their classes. Students download what they need, and go. Learning isn’t just for the classroom anymore. It’s for anytime and anyplace you’ve got a Mac, a PC, or an iPod (or any mp3 player).
How We Can Use iTunes U
- Audio Guides for students: campus tour, handbook, registration guidelines, financial aide, scholarship applications
- Supplemental classroom or textbook materials: library materials, lectures, etc.
- Event Capture in classrooms and/or on campus: presentations, performances, sports, guest lecturers/speakers
- Student created multimedia for class projects:
- Campus Communications: Press releases, promotional opportunities,
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For Students: advising overview, campus tour, student orientation, promote programs, promote career tracks, FAQs, How do I...?
iTunes Sites Around the Country
Links about iTunes U:
SMCC iTunes U Organization
About SMCC
- Administration (Have a welcome message from Dr. A)
- Campus Overview---Dr. A wants one produced this year
- News & Events
- Commencement (Rob & Particia)
- SMCC News (Rob & Patricia)
- Student Orientation (Ruben Saenz)
- Cougar Day --High school students visit SMCC---MCTV to film Feb.
- Guadalupe Expansion---MCTV to film feature on this later this spring
- Programs (Advertising)/Oral Histories - Storytelling (LynAnn), Trio (Sylvia)
- Performing Arts---music, dance, storytelling, etc: Theater (Julie), Storytelling (LynAnn)
SMCC Community
- Our Faculty
- Faculty interviews/intros (like we did for Day of Learning)---this could go under Community, too
- NISOD award winners---we will be getting video snippets of each (3)
- Technology Support
- Technology Services (Delbert)
- Computer Commons (Robert)
- TLC (Amy)
- President’s Community Advisory Council
Student Services & Activities
- Recruitment & Advisement (Christopher & Christine)
- Career Services (Suzanne)
- Library (Jill/Lora)
-
Student Life
- Student Leadership (Buddy)
- Clubs (Buddy)
- Athletics (Jake)
iTunes U Accounts
About SMCC:
Rob Price: Multiple Areas
Patricia Thornham: Multiple Areas
Julie Holston: Theater
LynnAnn Woj: Storytelling
SMCC Community:
Buddy Cheeks: Student Leadership & Clubs
Jake Harrington: Athletics
Amy MacPherson: Teaching & Learning Center
Karen Gurney: Teaching & Learning Center
Jennifer Mansfield: Teaching & Learning Center
Christopher Erran: Recruitment & Advisement
Christine Neill: Recruitment & Advisement
Ruben Saenz: TRIO Programs & Orientation (2 areas)
Sylvia Symonds: TRIO Programs
Jill Seymour: Library
Lora Largo: Library
Debra Leibold:Technology Services
Suzzanne Hipps: Career Services
Thomas Kirsch: Counseling
Faculty Classes:
LynAnn Woj: STO292
Liz Warren: STO294
Sian Proctor: GLG110
Britney Lieze: ENH235
Jean Revie: BIO205
Matt Cooper: PHI103
Alisa Cooper: ENG101, ENG102, ENH113
Jennifer Townsley: ENG250
Faculty Interested but No Class Yet:
Asha Dey
Helen Smith
Lara Collins
Ricardo Provencio
Meekness Lecato
Bill Zepeda
Terry Leyba
Latest News:
Feb. 11. 2008: We have started training. f you missed yesterday's training, you missed a good one. Thanks Jennifer and Sian for coming. The rest of you still have a chance to learn about podcasting too, and you don't have to drive out to EMCC unless you want to.
Estrella Mountain Community College, Center for Teaching and Learning, North (CTL NORTH) 1:00 – 2:30 PM
We're doing the same presentation on our campus tomorrow from 9:30-11am in the TLC and next Thursday, Feb. 21st from 2-3:30pm in the TLC. I hope to see you there.
Below I created a slidecast from my presentation slides. If you prefer to learn online, have a look. You need speakers/headphones. It's the same presentation slimmed down to 15 minutes. Yes, all the good stuff is missing (demos), but you will still get the main idea. Let me know what you think.
http://www.slideshare.net/soul4real/podcasting-theory-practice
P.S. The video I reference in this presentation, RSS in Plain English, is very good. Don't skip it. Click the link in the presentation or click here to watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
Feb. 1, 2008: Listen to the podcast: http://alisacooper.com/podcasts/alisapodcast.mp3
Lastly, you will need to put in a Helpdesk request to have iTunes installed on your computer. I tried for campus wide distribution, but was denied. :-( So it is only on a few computers in the commons and in the TLC. That's a start.
So let's get this podcasting party started!
The list of those people who have already responded are listed below. We will get your accounts set up as soon as Delbert and I can get the tech guys to do it. Hopefully that will be soon.
Remember, you are committing to learning how to use iTunes U and learning how to create a podcast so you can put at least two podcasts in your area/class. For now, we are only training on how to use audio, not video. I will send out an email next week with some training dates on our campus, and there will also be some online training videos to watch. Don't forget about the district wide 4 part podcasting series that I will be teaching that begins next month. Information: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learnshops/podcasting/index.php
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