Workshop

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We’re happy to present the 2009 Podcast University conference and workshops schedules to you and hope that we’ve fund an interesting round-up for all visitors of our conference. The now missing talks and workshops will be announced in the next couple of weeks. All informations about fee’s and registration are available here.

Over the last few years, web lectures and podcasts have become an integral part of universities’ e-learning portfolios. They can be created by simply recording a lecture that is part of a curriculum anyway. Thus, the amount of recordings and media files to which the recordings are exported is constantly growing. More and more students as well as learners from outside the universities ask for lectures to be available online. Lecturers develop new didactic concepts and produce podcasts including additional material while students produce audio-visual content as user-generated e-learning objects.

Web 2.0 platforms and mashup websites, social networks and video Internet repositories like YouTube try to attract students to spend their time online. Apple´s iTunes U project  is also a popular place to reach learners all over the planet. For universities, it is not easy to decide whether this kind of popular websites and systems are an adequate place to include or present high-quality learning content. Platforms like Apple’s iTunes U or YouTube education are a good marketing place for universities to attract prospective students, partners for projects or for the university itself. For many universities producing open educational ressources is a challenging process and presently disputed. Besides legal grounds concerning copyright issues and further points, there are concerns on the lecturers’ side about the way their content will be used outside. It is often quite unclear which benefit can be found in open educational ressources.

This year’s Podcast University:2009 conference will offer different panels for the topics capturing in lecture rooms, web lectures and the rise of podcasting in recent years, didactic solutions for the successful application of podcasting in universities and concepts for using web 2.0 technologies for teaching and collaboration. General concepts for integrating podcasts in your field of activity are more appreciated than field reports about a single podcast experience.

Topics of Interest

Covered issues will include :

• Institutional audio-visual initiatives
• Web lectures and podcasting
• Adding pedagogical value to assets
• Open Educational Ressources
• Mobile learning
• Sustainable infrastructure and processes
• The OpenCast project
• Exchange formats / metadata
• Media distribution channels
•  …

Opportunities to Participate

• Paper sessions (20 minutes of presentation followed by a panel discussion).
• Run a workshop or tutorial. Proposals should clearly indicate the topic, background, knowledge expected of the participants, objectives, and the qualifications of the instructor.
• Organize a thematic session.

Besides we will also offer different Opencastproject <-> Matterhorn “Beginners workshops” for developers and interested persons the second day that want to get involved in the Opencastproject (info: http://www.opencastproject.org).

To apply write an abstract that should not exceed one page and mail it to kontakt@podcast-university.com till 25. June 2009

Cornelis Kater, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Haben Sie sich schon einmal an einer Videoaufzeichnung versucht, ohne Schimpfworte zu verwenden? Ist Ihnen jemals die Veröffentlichung binnen Wochenfrist gelungen? Oder haben Sie einfach keine Lust mehr, stets enttäuscht zu werden, wenn es um dieses Thema geht?
Die eLearning Service Abteilung der Leibniz Universität Hannover bricht nun damit und führt Flowcasts ein. Statt eine Vielzahl an kunstfertig ausgeführten Einzelschritten zu exerzieren, überlassen sie dem Flowcast-System den gesamten Bearbeitungsworkflow. Von der Aufzeichnung über die Formatumwandlung bis hin zur Bereitstellung als Podcast und in Stud.IP übernimmt Flowcast den gesamten Prozess. Das Endergebnis liegt schneller vor, als sie Blaubeermarmelade sagen können.
Dabei kommen nur Komponenten zum Einsatz, die bereits am Markt verfügbar sind – es handelt sich bei den Flowcasts um keine aufwändige Eigenentwicklung. Ziel ist, das Aufzeichnen so einfach zu gestalten, dass jede Lehrveranstaltung ohne Weiteres aufgezeichnet werden kann, ohne dass dafür besondere Handgriffe bekannt sein müssen.
Das System wird vor Ort live präsentiert.

Die neueste Zusage für den Workshop Teil der Podcast University kommt von Apple, die in einem ein bis anderthalb stündigen Panel ihren “Podcast Producer” in Theorie und Praxis vorstellen werden.

Mittlerweile sind die ersten Themen für die Workshops bekannt:

• Videogestaltung mit einfachen Mitteln
• Einführung in die Produktion von Vorlesungsaufzeichnungen und Podcasts mit dem virtPresenter (www.virtpresenter.org)

Wir hoffen in kürze weitere Workshops ankündigen zu können.