The CEHS iPod Initiative
We were looking for innovative faculty and staff members...and we found them!
The College of Education and Human Sciences has begun an exploration of portable digital media this semester. The project, called the iPod Initiative, is a collaborative exploration of portable media in teaching, learning, research and outreach. The participants in iPod Initiative represent a wide variety of disciplines and experience levels in technology. Over the course of the semester the 13 participating faculty and staff will be learning together about how to leverage the power of portable and distributed media in their work.
Orientations sessions were held to familiarize participants with their new equipment and the basics of subscribing to podcasts, recording audio, and syncing audio, photos, and video. Some faculty and staff plan to use the iPod for presenting photos and video during classroom lectures and discussions. Others plan to use the iPods for recording audio in research interviews.
iPod Initiative Participants |
Podcasting Initiative Participants |
| Susan Churchill Jennifer Leeper Miller Brent Cjeda Susan Swearer Karen Kassebaum Del Harnisch John Raible Guy Trainin Angela Konin Patricia Crews Wendy Weiss Elaine Chan Rich Hoover |
Maria de Guzman Cody Hollist Eric Buhs LeeAnn Roth Julie Albrecht Georgia Jones |
Portable digital media are creating new opportunities in education. This technology is fast becoming a standard way of capturing, organizing and distributing audio/visual content. University-wide efforts are already underway to create new portals for distributing audio and visual content to support our mission (such as Podcasting Support in Blackboard and outreach media in iTunes U).
The iPod Initiative is sponsored by the Alumni Learning Technologies Center (ALTC) and the CEHS Technology Committee.
If you have questions or need help developing your idea for a project, contact Dan Schmit at dschmit2@unl.edu
Upcoming Workshops
February 27 and 29
9:30am-11:00am
March 12 and 14
9:30am-11:00am
Resources:
- a video iPod*
- a MicroMemo iPod microphone*
- a lavaliere microphone*
- appropriate media authoring software*
- an initial orientation and training session
- ongoing individual support for implementation
*The equipment will remain the property of the College of Education and Human Sciences, but will be checked out to participants on a long term basis, contingent on their successful completion of project activities.
