1. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Understanding And Exploiting Web 2.0: Podcasting Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath Email B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/stimulate-2006/talk-podcasting/ About What is Podcasting? Why all the hype? Is it relevant to us? How do I use it? About What is Podcasting? Why all the hype? Is it relevant to us? How do I use it? This work is licensed under a Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Resources bookmarked using ‘ stimulate-2006-web2.0 ' tag

2. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 2 What We'll Cover In this talk I will cover: What Podcasting is The reason for the hype Its potential in our environment Creating a Podcast – live example! Acceptable Use Policy A recording will be made of this talk and will be made available as a Podcast Please indicate if you wish to say anything which you do not want to be made available Acceptable Use Policy A recording will be made of this talk and will be made available as a Podcast Please indicate if you wish to say anything which you do not want to be made available Background

3. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 3 What is Podcasting? Social Perspective On Podcasting: Transforming society; freeing the airwaves; democratising radio; … Podcasting is to radio what Blogs are to the mass media – anyone can do it; all can read Technical Perspective On Podcasting: A simple RSS 2.0 application:  RSS allows content to automatically appear (syndicated) in Web pages (and other application)  Why not syndicate an MP3 file?  Automatically appear on a hard drive – e.g. your iPod Very simple to use as end user Simple to use as a publisher More difficult to do well!

4. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 4 Podcasting At Library Events Recent interest in Podcasts from US Public Library sector: Michael’s Stephens’ Tame The Web (library-oriented) Blog describes his experiments Much discussion on Web4Lib list in Jan/Feb 2005 First Public Library Podcast claimed in Jan/Feb 2005 http://www.tametheweb.com/ ttwblog/archives/000942.html http://openstacks.net/os/ archives/000732.html#000732 http://openstacks.net/os/ archives/000732.html#000732 Technologies May 2005, Podcasts on talks at NEASSIST event

5. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 5 Experiences At Bath University CDNTL, University of Bath provides a highly- regarded e-learning Blog, Auricle During 2005, Auricle has been enhanced with an accompanying Podcast: Use of Skype for interviews Gaining experiences in recording issues http://www.bath.ac.uk/dacs/cdntl/pMachine/morriblog.php Note that Podcasting is new in UK HE sector. Googling "podcast uk university" finds student union music experiments!

6. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 6 My Involvement Podcasting at Institutional Web Management Workshop, Manchester, 6- 8 July: Brief (< 5 mins) Podcasts released prior to event, giving a 'taster' One of the keynote talks Podcasted Using Skype to allow remote users to participate

7. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 7 Creating A Podcast (1) Making the recording: Initially used Belkin Recorder with iPod – but low resolution Better to use decent mike and PC (e.g. Audacity open source software) Record as WAV then convert to MP3 Making the recording available: Copy to Web server and link to it But: This isn't new (so what, you may say) This doesn't address the automated distribution Need to create an RSS file for the recording

8. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 8 Creating A Podcast (2) Early adopters approach – copy & edit existing RSS file Podcast 1 For IWMW 2005 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/…podcasts /podcast-iwmw-2005-01.mp3 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/…/ podcasts/#podcast-01 This introductory Podcast describes what a Podcast is and …. ( 2.5 minute long MP3 recording, ~1.6 MB). Sun, 12 Jun 2005... IWMW 2005 Podcasts http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web- focus/events/podcasts/podcasts.xml Podcasts About IWMW 2005 en-gb Creative Commons - Attribution and Share-alike Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:00:00 GMT Podcasting tools are being developed to make process easier (e.g. AudioBlog, Blogmatrix, etc). Developers should read the spec.

9. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 9 Accessing A Podcast To access a Podcast: Install Podcast software e.g. iPodder, Jager, Blogmatrix, … Add URL of RSS file Select config options  Frequency of polling  Times for download  Location of MP3 file (hard drive; external drive such as iPod) Or use other software to transfer file to device (e.g. iTunes)

10. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 10 Usage Scenarios Why are we doing this? What, if any, are the most appropriate areas? What are your views? Some thoughts: Not a replacement for listening live (and in flesh) but as a support in case of problems (e.g. couldn't attend talk), conflicts (parallel sessions), … Provides a 'taster', helps in marketing, addresses additional areas (e.g. social activities), … Use by peers who wish to make use of materials (e.g. slides on Podcasting available with CC licence – but how are they used) Keeping informed of developments elsewhere Some thoughts: Not a replacement for listening live (and in flesh) but as a support in case of problems (e.g. couldn't attend talk), conflicts (parallel sessions), … Provides a 'taster', helps in marketing, addresses additional areas (e.g. social activities), … Use by peers who wish to make use of materials (e.g. slides on Podcasting available with CC licence – but how are they used) Keeping informed of developments elsewhere

11. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 11 Exercise As an exercise: Explore the range of tools now available for creating Podcasts Explore the costs which would be needed to create a Podcast Outline a proposal for creating Podcasts in your own institution Note the report by the Library Podcast Group at the University of Bath may be useful – see

12. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 12 Question Any questions or comments?