Wimba Distinguished Lecture Series Presentation, given April 30, 2010. This session will share Northern Illinois University’s journey offering live online faculty development workshops using Wimba Classroom as well as making online workshop archives available for on-demand viewing either online, in iTunes, or on a mobile device. Emphasis will be placed on NIU’s step-by-step workflow for using the MP4 archive download capabilities in Wimba Classroom 6.0 to deliver archived online faculty development programs in podcast form. The presentation will include considerations for hosting archives outside Wimba Classroom as well as the steps necessary to create a podcast RSS feed, submit to the iTunes store, and update the necessary files when a new MP4 archive from Wimba Classroom is available.
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Podcasting Online Faculty Development Programs Using Wimba Classroom MP4 ArchivesJason Rhode, Ph.D.Assistant Director, Faculty Development and Instructional Design CenterNorthern Illinois University
This session will share Northern Illinois University’s journey offering live online faculty development workshops using Wimba Classroom as well as making online workshop archives available for on-demand viewing either online, in iTunes, or on a mobile device. Emphasis will be placed on NIU’s step-by-step workflow for using the MP4 archive download capabilities in Wimba Classroom 6.0 to deliver archived online faculty development programs in podcast form. The presentation will include considerations for hosting archives outside Wimba Classroom as well as the steps necessary to create a podcast RSS feed, submit to the iTunes store, and update the necessary files when a new MP4 archive from Wimba Classroom is available.
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Session Focus
• Details of NIU’s workflow for podcasting MP4 archives of online faculty development workshop archives
• Glimpse at mobile experience of downloading and viewing MP4 archives on iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad
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What is a Podcast?
• Really Simply Syndication• XML file format
– Universally readable by feed readers and podcatching software
• XML vs. RSS– Either term/button can refer to the existence of a feed (RSS =
process; XML = file format)
RSS XML
RSS is Required for a Podcast
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>NIU Faculty Development Program Archives</title> <description>Archived online faculty development programs offered by Northern Illinois University (NIU)
Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center. For more information or to register for an upcoming faculty development program, visit http://www.niu.edu/facdev</description>
<link>http://www.niu.edu/facdev</link> <copyright>Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, Northern Illinois University</copyright> <language>en-us</language> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:00:00 -0500</lastBuildDate> <managingEditor>[email protected]</managingEditor> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:59:55 -0500</pubDate> <generator>FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com</generator> <itunes:subtitle>Archived online faculty development programs offered by Northern Illinois University
(NIU) Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center</itunes:subtitle> <itunes:summary>Archived online faculty development programs offered by Northern Illinois University
(NIU) Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center. For more information or to register for an upcoming faculty development program, visit http://www.facdev.niu.edu A current listing of upcoming online faculty development programs is available at http://www.niu.edu/facdev/programs/online</itunes:summary>
<itunes:author>NIU Faculty Development & Instructional Design Center</itunes:author> <itunes:owner> <itunes:name>Northern Illinois University</itunes:name> <itunes:email>[email protected]</itunes:email> </itunes:owner>
What does XML look like?
Traditional “Pulling” of Content from the WWW
Podcast = Pushing Content via RSS & Podcatching Software
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