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Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
[link] Apple has launched iTunes U, a platform for universities to publish podcasts. University webmaster listservs are all a-buzz over it.
Some are seeing this move as a renewed commitment on Apple’s part to serve the education sector. Note that they also recently launched a podcasting server for schools.
Read more on TUAW.
[Syndication for Higher Ed]
9:29:48 AM 
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NYT on Podcasting in Education. The more I read mainstream articles like this one from the New York Times on podcasting in K-12, the more urgent it seems for college and university instructors to understand and begin using this technology. The phenomenon is no longer new. Students are going to expect a way to get their college classes via podcast.
[Syndication for Higher Ed]
8:57:53 AM
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Adventures in lightweight service composition. Three years after I started the LibraryLookup project, people are still regularly discovering and enjoying the ability to automatically broker a connection between Amazon (or another book site) and their local libraries. In a screencast entitled Content, services, and the yin-yang of intermediation I showed a more advanced version of the conventional bookmarklet: a Greasemonkey script that modifies an Amazon page to include a notice about the book's availability in my local library. The screencast ends with a demonstration of another kind of connection brokering. If a book isn't available at the library, I add it to my Amazon wishlist. Then, when it becomes available at the library, it shows up in a special RSS feed that watches my Amazon wishlist.
... [Jon's Radio]
8:31:05 AM
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© Copyright 2006 Bruce Landon.
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