Flew down to UCSD on Monday to co-present on podcasting at a UC-wide IT conference. My colleagues from Davis and Riverside and I discussed how-we-do-it from a technical perspective. But the questions were mainly about policy issues around podcasting. Even Davis, with like 20 feeds, doesn’t make them public… yet. Riverside? Not …yet. And so on.
We have the technical solved. The next challenge is social, political, philisophical. What will it take for these campuses to get to “yet”? This is the next big mountain to climb snowball to roll down the mountain. It’s becoming a mission that could prove as interesting and fulfilling as anything I’ve ever done. I wish that I kept a blog journal about the podcast journey. But the podcast story continues, pushing me squarely into the open content movement. This story will unfold in this blog, and I hope that you’ll join me with ideas and advice along the way.
July 20, 2006 at 4:55 pm |
You say you have the “technical solved” … I am eager to see you post about your vision for how each class can be captured. Are they monitored for sound quality in real-time? Are they edited? What are the production costs and the automation possibilities? Share the solution.
July 21, 2006 at 5:11 am |
Hey Erik,
Sure, I’ll do a future post on this. Meanwhile, the point of this post is that even without an automated, scalable system it’s relatively easy to create a podcast. The issue that keeps coming up in higher-ed has nothing to do with technology.