Olympus is offering podcasting grants for schools to help promote awareness of its podcasting offerings. Apply for the grant, and your school could win software and the digital media accessories you need to start a podcasting program. To apply, you need to develop a lesson plan demonstrating how you would use podcasting in your curriculum. […]

Here’s something that makes you realize that¬†there’s still room for¬†a tremendous amount of growth in podcasting; a high school in California is considering adding podcasting as¬†a new class in its curriculum. Gary Bissell, a computer science teacher in Atascadero, Calif., is planning a new podcasting class. Bissell came up with the idea for the class, […]

Princeton is making audio recordings of public lecturesavailable in podcast form on its WebMedia site. The archive contains over 800 files dating back to 1998 and includes lectures by many prominent guests. Streaming videos of campus events have been publicly available through the Princeton WebMedia website for years, but the University wants to “leverage the […]

Winners of a Canadian national video podcast competition have been announced. First place went to students from St. Jospeh Catholic High School in Ottawa (Ontario). Three students from Argyle Alternative High School in Winnipeg (Manitoba)¬† have won second and third place. The contest, organized by the Media Awareness Network, was designed to help young people […]

College admissions testing concern ACT has recently debuted a podcast for high school students and their families. The Prep Talk podcast section of the “ACT Student Blog” covers a variety of college planning topics. The latest podcast, about financial aid, features Cathy Wilcox, Senior Associate Director in the Office of Student Financial Aid at the […]

The Star-Telegram has an interesting article that looks at the growing use of podcasts for distance learning: Distance learning has been around for decades, but thanks to the iPod and other digital music players, higher education is becoming as portable as a pop song. “I do testing for offshore rigs,” said Melvin Robinson, a Sugar […]

PBS has introduced a new podcast, the Take One Step podcast, as part of a new health campaign launched to raise awareness of heart disease. The campaign features a wide variety of resources to help inform people about the number one killer in the US. To accompany the premiere of The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease […]

RM has introduced Podium, a podcasting tool designed for educational institutions. Podium is designed to allow students and teachers to communicate by creating enhanced podcasts, which incorporate audio, text and images. The tool, available for Windows-based systems, provides simple input fields for podcast and episode names, as well as credits. Images can be added to […]

The Smithsonian has introduced the Folkways Collection Podcast, a series of 24 one-hour programs that explore the collection of music, spoken word, and sound recordings that make up the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. The music of modern day giants like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Ani Difranco is interwoven with original Folkways recordings to demonstrate the […]

Anystream has announced that the latest release of their Apreso products for higher education is the world’s first lecture capture technology to integrate with iTunes U. The integration is a result of a partnership with Apreso customer and iTunes U partner The George Washington University (GW). “Automation is highly valuable in higher education because it […]