Prizes for the upcoming Leopard Shorts Digital Media Competition lead off the ITS Coffee Break this week, followed by an explaination of why you may be having trouble sending message to Yahoo accounts from your Lafayette e-mail address. In Tech News, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley discuss an Academic Commons article about podcasting in education by Laura Blankenship, Bryn Mawr College instructional technologist. Rounding out the podcast is a rundown of the late February multimedia workshops being offered by ITS.

Getting the Podcast

There are several ways to get the podcast:

• Download the MP3 directly
• Subscribe to the Soapbox podcast rss feed using an aggregator (you only need to do this once; subsequent shows should download automatically)
• Subscribe to the Soapbox feed via iTunes

Show Notes

ITS News

• Leopard Shorts Digital Media Competition Update
  
  • Competition Web site
  • Sponsored by ITS and Apple Inc.
  • Categories announced:
    • Individual audio/video project
      • One entry per person.
      • Prize: 30 GB White iPod
    • Group audio/video project
      • One entry per group.
      • Groups can have up to four members.
      • Individuals can submit entire's as part of a group in addition to their
      • individual entries.
      • Prize: 2 GB Silver iPod nano
      • Limited to up to four people per group. Each member of the group receives
        an iPod nano.
  • Problems sending to Yahoo! email accounts
    • Several Lafayette email users have reported problems sending to Yahoo! email accounts. The problem is at Yahoo's end and is not unique to sending from Lafayette accounts.
    • Visit the ITS Web site for more information.

Tech News

• Academic Commons: Podcasting in Education: A Perspective from Bryn Mawr College
  
  • Read the article at Academic Commons.
  • An article by instructional technologist Laura Blankenship discussing the experiences of three Bryn Mawr professors who experimented with podcasting.
  • One used strategically edited lectures to allow students to review what they learned … but they still needed to attend class for announcements and news. Also hopes to use the podcast to share materials for review before class.
  • Two biology teachers team-teached an intro class, and found that it was a logical extension of posting powerpoint notes. But also found students were using the lectures to cram an entire semester's worth of review into a few hours — that'd rather have seen them use the podcasts to focus on specific issues they were having (thus, the importance of bookmarking/timestamping podcasts?)

Help News

• Upcoming Workshops
  • iMovie I: Intro to iMovie, 4:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Mon., Feb. 19
  • Audio Editing with Audacity, 4:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Tues., Feb. 20
  • Garageband, 4:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Thurs., Feb. 22
  • Also have workshops on Acrobat, Introduction to Outlook and Dreamweaver planned for February.
  • Register for a workshop or view the full workshop calendar.

Contacting the Podcast

• Questions, comments and suggestions can be sent to itsblog@lafayette.edu.